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222 xcvi

Learn the laborious stumble of a Fool ! Go, send your Children to the Slobbering School !

MS. Book, p. 39. WMR as conclusion of xciii, xcv, interpolating between lines i and 2 the line, presumably his own : —
 * ' And from an idiot's action form my rule I '

EY i. 221 invert order of the two lines. 2 Go, send] Go and send EY. Slobbering] globbering EY.

xcvii

If I e'er Grow to Man's Estate, O ! Give to me a Woman's fate. May I govern all, both great & small, Have the last word, and take the wall.

MS. Book, p. 39. DGR ('Coupl.' ix), WMR, EY ('Coupl.' xi), WBY (' Coupl.' 12). 1 I e'er] e'er I DGR, WMR, EY, WBY. e'en I] EY (Index, MS. Book, i. asi).

xcviii

The cripple every step drudges & labours, 1 And says : ' Come, learn to walk of me, Good Neighbours.' Sir Joshua in astonishment cries out: ' See, what Great Labour ! Pain in Modest Doubt !

MS. Book, p. 39. Gil. (first 4 11. only) i. 265, EY i. 221, 222. Cp. Advertisement (MS. Book, p. 19): 'Who that has eyes cannot see that Rubens & Corregio must have been very weak & vulgar fellows ? And are we to imitate their execution ? This is like what Sir Francis Bacon says : — that a healthy child should be taught & compelled to walk like a cripple, while the cripple must be taught to walk like healthy people. O, rare wisdom ! ' 1 drudges] smudges EY. 4 See. . . Doubt] His pains are more than others, there 's no doubt MS. Book 1st rdg. del. EY insert this after 1. 4 as part of the poem. Pain in] springs from Gil.