Act II. Scene 4_ read _Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 1_.

p. 134 l. 3 for _heavens_ read _heaven_. p. 145 l. 11 for _with purged_ read _in purged_. p. 159 l. 13 for _upon_ read _of_. _ib._ l. 16 for _pitiable_ read _pitiful and_. _ib._ l. 17 for _But thou art_ read _Thou stern_. p. 185 l. 13 for _for it_ read _for ’t_. p. 194 l. 311 for _dosed_ read _dozed_. p. 211 l. 8 for _in thee_ read _of thee_. _ib._ l. 12 for _but tyrannous_ read _but it is tyrannous_. p. 228 ll. 3 and 6 _She_ and _Her_ are substituted for _He_ and _His_ in the original passage. _ib._ l. 9 for _there is_ read _there’s_. p. =242= l. 4 for _Taming the Shrew_ read _Taming of the Shrew_. _ib._ l. 7 for _Act V. Scene 2_ read _Act II. Scene 1_. p. =249= l. 233 for _has_ read _had_. p. =251= l. 6 for _with my troll-my-dames_ read _with troll-my-dames_. _ib._ l. 7 for _Scene 2_ read _Scene 3_. _ib._ l. 9 for _holding_ read _hiding_. p. =253= l. 31 for _of as_ read _as of_. p. =259= l. 272 for _seems_ read _seemed_. p. =261= l. 372 for _I boy_ read _I a boy_. p. =264= l. 6 for _practice may_ read _practices_. _ib._ l. 8 for _with hinds_ read _with his hinds_. _ib._ l. 12 for _being what_ read _being the thing_. p. =276= l. 10 for _He has_ read _He is_. p. =308= l. 200 for _know_ read _knew_. p. =341= l. 298 for _hear_ read _heard_. p. =351= l. 184 for _look’d_ read _look_. p. =381= l. 344 for _bounded_ read _bonded_. p. =391= l. 738 for _comfort_ read _comforts_. p. =397= l. 91 for _it_ read _its_. p. =409= ll. 556-8 three inverted commas, instead of four, prefixed to each line, and no single inverted comma at the end of l. 558. p. =413= l. 716 for _parent’s_ read _parents’_. p. =415= l. 807 for _peasant’s_ read _peasants’_. p. =423= l. 116 for _Has_ read _Had_. p. =449= l. 731 no inverted comma before and after the words But why delay so long? p. 461 ll. 358-9 no inverted commas prefixed to these lines, and no inverted comma at the end of l. 359. p. =462= l. 404 for _bought_ read _brought_. p. =466= l. 567 no inverted comma at beginning or end of this line. p. =468= l. 636 no third inverted comma before and after the words _I am this being_. _ib._ ll. 638-40 no third inverted comma before the word _thus_ in l. 638 or before ll. 639 and 640 or at the end of l. 640. p. =469= ll. 692-7 two inverted commas before each of these lines and at the close of l. 697. p. =470= ll. 714-7 two inverted commas before each of these lines and at the end of l. 717. p. =478= l. 1054 for _will_ read _wilt_.

VARIANTS.

=TALES=. Variants in edition of 1812 (first edition), and ‘Original MS.’ readings given as footnotes in Life and Poems (1834). These latter are distinguished as ‘O.M.’

Preface: p. =5=, l. 1. present Volume. p. =10=, l. 22. Ahitophel. l. 23. Ogg. pp. =10-11=. _instead of_ l. 30-l. 5:

It has been asked, if Pope was a poet? No one, I conceive, will accuse me of vanity in bringing forward this query, or suppose me capable of comparing myself with a man so eminent: but persons very unlike in other respects may, in one particular, admit of comparison, or rather the same question may be applied to both. Now, who will complain that a definition of poetry, which excludes a great part of the writings of Pope, will shut out him? I do not lightly take up the idea, but I conceive that by that kind of definition, one half of our most agreeable English versification (most generally held, by general readers, to be agreeable and good) will be excluded, and an equal quantity, at least of very moderate, or, to say truly, of very wretched composition, will be taken in. (O.M.)

=Tale 1.= _The edition of 1834 contains the following note to the Quotations_: These mottoes are many, because there is a reference in them not only to the characters, but frequently to the incidents also; and they are all taken from Shakspeare, because I could more readily find them in his scenes, than in the works of any other poet to whom I could have recourse. (O.M.)

l. 310. tyger. l. 371. skulks.

=Tale 2.= Second Quotation. Hath written. Third Quotation. fire and flood. _instead of_ ll. 191-4:

In a clear eve the lover sail’d, and one As clear and bright on aged Allen shone: On the spot sanction’d by the last embrace The old man stood! and sigh’d upon the place. (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 253-274:

Oft to his children had the father told Where he resided in the years of old; When, without thought, his feeling and his pride The native town adorn’d and magnified; The streets, the markets, and the quays were all Spacious and grand, and every building tall: The tower and church were sea-marks leagues from land-- Men were amazed to see them look so grand! His father’s house was then in Allen’s eyes, But far increased in beauty and in size; And their small area where the schoolboys play’d, Room for an army had his fancy made: But now the dark and feeble mind debased, Contracted, sullied all that fancy graced, All spaces dwindled--streets but alleys seem’d: Then dreamt he now, or absent had he dream’d? The church itself, the lofty tower, the scene Of so much glory, was debased and mean: The mind each object in dull clothing dress’d, And its own sadness on each scene impress’d. (O.M.)

=Tale 3.= l. 57. expence. l. 92. indure. _instead of_ ll. 105-7:

Because in beaten ways we ever tread, And man by man, as sheep by sheep, is led, None start aside, but in the paths proceed, (O.M.)

l. 377. controul. l. 398. controul. l. 502. conns. l. 514. controul.

=Tale 4.= Third Quotation, sundred. l. 32. teazing.

=Tale 5.= l. 334. expence. l. 348. extacy. l. 492. teaz’d. l. 662. controuling. l. 703. curt’sy’d.

=Tale 6.= First Quotation. curtesy . . . curtesy. Third Quotation. gig. l. 226. doat.

=Tale 7.= l. 46. besprinkled. l. 162. rustics. l. 370. needs.

=Tale 8.= First Quotation. pityless. l. 36. teaze. l. 39. saught. l. 256. controul. l. 325. intranc’d.

=Tale 9.= l. 15. mamas. l. 32. Montague. l. 55. to his failings blind. l. 56. the mind. l. 57. pourtray’d. l. 187. we knew not--’twas her fate.

=Tale 10.= Third Quotation. this spring. l. 106. dykes. l. 116, note. Laver. l. 148. Trav’ler. l. 162. Trav’ler’s. l. 211. teiz’d. l. 288. Trav’ler. l. 321. Trav’ler. l. 349. dykes. l. 354. Trav’ler.

=Tale 11.= l. 15. Sampson. l. 42. was dignity. l. 127. Africk’s. l. 233, arbor’s. l. 297. bad.

=Tale 13.= l. 307. Colin.

=Tale 14.= Fourth Quotation. rooted sinew. l. 89. Who knows?--or build. l. 352. teaze. l. 377. controul. l. 495, wo.

=Tale 15.= l. 10. earthy. l. 158. controul. l. 164. conceiving that the coming day. l. 248. are these sinners. l. 406. temptations.

=Tale 16.= l. 499. secresy. l. 581. æra.

=Tale 17.= Third Quotation, l. 3. act of our necessities. l. 139. controul. l. 299. paniers. l. 409. smoaky.

=Tale 18.= l. 196. controul.

=Tale 19.= l. 154. controul. l. 180. controul.

=Tale 20.= l. 119. expence. l. 132. expence. l. 204. teaz’d. l. 212. t’excuse it as a woman’s way.

=Tale 21.= l. 47. teaze. l. 50. controul. l. 53. uncontroul’d. l. 186. tenour.

=TALES OF THE HALL. Variants in edition of 1819 (first edition).=

=‘Original MS.’ readings given as footnotes in Life and Poems (1834).= These are distinguished as ‘O.M.’

=Variants in Crabbe MSS. in the possession of the Cambridge University Press.= These are distinguished as ‘U.P.’

=Variants in Crabbe MSS. in the possession of Mrs Mackay.= These are distinguished as ‘M.’

=Book I.=

l. 151. inforce.

=Book II.=

_Instead of_ ll. 15-20:

Yet with this difference might observers find Some kindred powers and features of the mind. A love of honour in both spirits ruled, But here by temper, there by trouble cool’d; Their favourite objects, studies, themes, pursuits, Had various beauties, merits, ends, and fruits. (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 63-70:

Joel nor time nor seasons could command, He took his comforts as they came to hand; Nor came they often, nor delay’d so long, That they were habits either weak or strong; What seem’d habitual was the urgent force Of stern necessity that shaped his course. (O.M.)

=Book III.=

_Instead of_ ll. 7-14:

“Oh! there’s a wicked little world in schools, Where mischief suffers and oppression rules; Where mild, quiescent children oft endure What a long placid life shall fail to cure; Where virtuous boys, who shrink from early sin, Meet guilty rogues, who love to draw them in, Who take a pleasure at their just surprise, Who make them wicked, and proclaim them wise.” (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 23-34:

“Behold him now, without the least pretence To such command----behold him five years hence; Mix’d in the world, his interest in his sight, How smooth he looks, his language how polite, No signs of anger, insult, scorn are seen; The address is mild, the temper is serene; His fiery passions are resign’d and still, They yield to reason, or obey his will. But are they dead?--Not so: should he attain The wish’d-for fortune, they will live again; Then shall the Tyrant be once more obey’d, And all be Fags, whom he can make afraid.” (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 90-7:

“But when he sits in judgment, and decrees What men should rule us, and what books should please, And thus the merit of a critic gains, Only for blowing out a Frenchman’s brains, I must demur, and in my mind retrace The accountant Hector, and his rueful face; But on he blunders! thinking he is wise, Who has much strength, no matter where it lies.” (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 192-7:

“Again was made the offer, and again, With threats, with noble promises, in vain. When my Lord saw that nothing could be done, He nobly cried,--‘I’ll fit him as my son; Sir, will you go?’ As meekly as a saint, Charles humbly begg’d to stay on land and paint.” (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 204-29:

“Stubborn though mild, and fearing to offend, He gain’d his freedom, and he lost his friend: My Lord appeal’d to all the world, and cried,-- ‘There never breathed such stubbornness and pride; Do what you please, Sir, I am justified.’ So said my Lord; for he was grieved to find Such vile ingratitude in base mankind. “The boy then wrote for bread. I saw him thrice; His passions placid, he without a vice: He sometimes painted, but was uninspired By genius, unprotected, unadmired; But pensive, sober, diligent, employ’d } His every hour, his life without a void, } He sought for little, nothing he enjoy’d. } I fear he thought himself, because distress’d, An injured genius, by the world oppress’d.” (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 253-60:

“Years past away; I think some twenty-five, Again I saw him, and but just alive, And still forbidding, silent, sullen, proud, As one whose claims were just, and not allow’d. He saw me, saw my sympathy with pain, } Received my humble offers with disdain, } And sternly told me not to come again.” } (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 296-301:

“Thou, Charles! unaided by a noble friend, Hadst spent a careful life, as others spend; But when thy patron’s vanity and thine Were made by cruel fortune to combine, ’Twas then th’ unhappy wretch was lifted high On golden stilts, and seem’d to touch the sky; But when the tempter hand withdraws the props, The vision closes, and the victim drops.” (O.M.)

_instead of_ ll. 362-87:

“The boy was tall, but with a mincing air, Blue, languid eyes, pale cheek, and flaxen hair; His temper fretful, but his spirits mild, } Loved by mamma, by all her maidens styled } The wittiest darling, and the sweetest child. } In those dear times, when that mamma had rule, There was much play, few lessons, and no school; But, oh! misfortune--when the lady died, No second wife her honour’d place supplied, But one dishonour’d; and she quickly sent All who had grief to grieve in banishment: No longer now was there the rush of joy, The flood of fondness o’er the happy boy; No more indulgence by the maidens shown, For master’s pleasure, purchase of their own; But they as spies were to new service sent, And the sad boy to school and banishment.” (O.M.)