CXX. From Acis and Galatea.

CXXI. This, a very early poem of Pope, is in part a paraphrase of Horace's Epode,

Beatus ille qui procul negotiis.

CXXII. An imitation of the lines of Hadrian,
Animula vagula blandula.

CXXIII. In the third edition of Carey's Poems on Several Occasions, MDCCXXIX, these verses first appear, prefaced by an Argument.' In this, after having denied the vulgar error' of those who imagined Sally Salisbury their subject, he says: 'The real occasion was this: A shoemaker's prentice making holiday with his sweetheart, treated her with a sight of Bedlam, the Puppet-shows, the Flying-chairs, and all the elegancies of Moorfields. From whence proceeding to the Farthing Pie-house, he gave her a collation of buns, cheese-cakes, gammon of bacon, stuffed beef and bottled ale; through all which scenes the author dodged them, charmed with the simplicity of their courtship, from whence he drew this little sketch of nature. But being then young and obscure, he was very much ridiculed by some of his acquaintance for this performance, which nevertheless made its way into the polite world, and amply recompensed him by the applause of the divine Addison, who was

pleased more than once to mention it with approbation.'

CXXIV. Robert Levett, who died Jan. 16th, 1782, aged about seventy-eight, an Englishman by birth, had been waiter in a coffee-house in Paris, where he attracted the notice of some surgeons who frequented it. They subscribed to give him a surgical training. He lived for twenty years with Johnson, who never allowed him to be treated as a dependant.

CXXV. Written in commemoration of the English who fell in the battle of Culloden, April 16th, 1746.

CXXVI. Designed to be introduced into Shakspere's Cymbeline.

CXXVII. From The Vicar of Wakefield.

CXXVIII. Addressed to Mrs. Unwin in the autumn of 1798.

CXXX. From The Seraglio, where it is called A Rondeau.

CXLI. Miss Wordsworth in Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, A.D. 1803, says: 'It was harvest time, and the fields were quietly-might I be allowed to say pensively-enlivened by small companies of reapers. It is not uncommon in the more lonely parts of the Highlands to see a single person so employed.

The following poem-"Behold her single in the field" -was suggested to William by a beautiful sentence in Thomas Wilkinson's Tour in Scotland. On this Mr. Shairp notes Probably one of Wilkinson's poems of which Wordsworth speaks occasionally in his letters.'

CXLII. From Marmion.

CXLIII. From Rokeby. Sir Walter Scott says of this: The last verse is taken from the fragment of an old Scottish ballad, of which I recollected only two verses when the first edition of Rokeby was published.' The original verse, the third of five, is:

He turned him round and right about,

He

All on the Irish shore;

gave his bridle-reins a shake,
With, Adieu for evermore,

My dear!

Adieu for evermore!

CXLIV. From The Bride of Lammermoor.

CXLV. From Quentin Durward.

CXLVI. From The Doom of Devorgoil. This is an earlier version of the last song. Sir Walter Scott says in his notes to The Doom of Devorgoil, 'The author thought of omitting this song, which was in fact abridged into one in Quentin Durward, termed County Guy,'

CXLVII. The three last lines were quoted by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe, 1820, while the fragment was still unpublished, as follows: To borrow lines from a contemporary poet who has written too little,

The knights are dust,

And their good swords are rust;

Their souls are with the saints we trust."

This convinced Coleridge that Scott wrote the novel, for the lines had been composed as an experiment in metre, and recited by Coleridge to a friend, who repeated them to Scott at a dinner-party, next day.

CXLVIII. The poem ends as here in its early versions in The Bijou, 1828, and in the Literary Souvenir of the same date. Some lines which now are often tacked on to it were published in Blackwood's Magazine for June, 1832, under the title The Old Man's Sigh, a Sonnet. The lines are not a sonnet, and are of very inferior merit to the original poem.

CXLIX. From Zapolya, Part II, or The Usurper's Fate.

CLI. Hester was Hester Savory, of whom Lamb writes to Manning in 1803, 'I send you some verses I have made on the death of a young Quaker you may have heard me speak of as being in love with for some years while I lived at Pentonville, though I had never

spoken to her in my life. She died about a month since.'

CLIV. The battle of Hohenlinden was fought on

December 3rd, 1800.

CLVIII. From Maid Marian.

CLIX. From The Misfortunes of Elphin.

CLX. From Crotchet Castle.

CLXI. From Crotchet Castle.

CLXII. From Gryll Grange.

CLXIII. Written by Lord Byron in 1815, on returning from a ball-room, where he had seen Mrs. Wilmot Horton, in mourning, with numerous spangles on her dress.

CLXVIII. These lines were written for the Irish air Gramachree, but Wolfe denied that he had any real incident in view or had witnessed any immediate occurrence which might have prompted them.'

CLXIX. At Corunna, Jan. 16th, 1809.

CLXXXIV. From Death's Jest-Book, or The Fool's Tragedy.

CLXXXV. From The Bride's Tragedy.