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Was I angry with Hayley who us'd me so ill, Or can I be angry with Felpham's old Mill ? Or angry with Flaxman, or Cromek, or Stothard, Or poor Schiavonetti, whom they to death bother'd ? Or angry with Macklin, or Boydel, or Bowyer, Because they did not say ' O what a beau ye are ' ? At a Friend's Errors anger shew, Mirth at the Errors of a Foe.

MS. Book, p. 23. Only printed by EY (i. 8i), except last couplet, which WMR and WBY print as beginning of li. As the allusion to Schiavonetti's death shows, written after June 1810.

3 Or. . . Stothard] Or angry with Boydell, or Bowyer or Bu. . . MS. Book 1st rdg. del. 5 Macklin] Malchin EY, confusing Macklin for whom Blake engraved Stothard's 'Fall of Rosamund ' (1783) with Dr. Malkin (Father's Memoirs of His Child, 1806) : Boydel] Read 'Boy- dell,' for whom Blake engraved Hogarth's Scene from the Beggar's Opera (1788) : Bowyer] publisher of the sumptuous illustrated edition of Hume's History (1806).

Anger & Wrath my bosom rends: I thought them the Errors of friends. But all my limbs with warmth glow: I find them the Errors of the foe.

MS. Book, p. 23. Written in margin of preceding piece. Printed by WMR and WBY ('Coup, and Frag.' xvi) prefixed by l. II. 7, 8 ; by EY (' Coup, and Frag.' xiii) as above. WMR with title ' Friends and Foes.' 3 warmth glow] warmth do glow EY.

The Sussex Men are Noted Fools, And weak is their brain pan — I wonder if H—— the painter Is not a Sussex Man.

MS. Book, p. 24. Written about 1809, the date of the publication of Hayley's Life of Romney, to which William Haines and Blake both contri- buted engravings. Cp. Gilchrist, i. 178. Only ptd. by EY i. 212. 2 is] in EY.