The Works of Lord Byron
Chapter 99 : [MS. First to Fourth Editions]] [Footnote xvi: --though lesser bards content-- [British

['MS. First to Fourth Editions']]

[Footnote xvi:

'--though lesser bards content--'

['British Bards']

[Footnote xvii:

'How well the subject.'

['MS. First to Fourth Editions.']]

[Footnote xviii:

'A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.'--

['British Bards, First to Fourth Editions.']]

[Footnote xix:

'Who fain would'st.'

['British Bards, First to Fifth Editions'.]]

[Footnote xx:

'Mend thy life, and sin no more.'

['MS.']]

[Footnote xxi:

'And o'er harmonious nonsense.'

['MS. First Edition.']]

[Footnote xxii:

'In many marble-covered volumes view Hayley, in vain attempting something new, Whether he spin his comedies in rhyme, Or scrawls as Wood and Barclay [A] walk, 'gainst Time.'

['MS. British Bards', and 'First to Fourth Editions.']

[Sub-Footnote A: Captain Robert Barclay (1779-1854) of Ury, agriculturalist and pedestrian, came of a family noted for physical strength and endurance. Byron saw him win his walk against Wood at Newmarket. (See Angelo's 'Reminiscences' (1837), vol. ii. pp. 37-44.) In July, 1809, Barclay completed his task of walking a thousand miles in a thousand hours, at the rate of one mile in each and every hour. (See, too, for an account of Barclay, 'The Eccentric Review' (1812), i.

133-150.)]]

[Footnote xxiii:

'Breaks into mawkish lines each holy Book'.

['MS. First Edition'.] ]

[Footnote xxiv:

'Thy "Sympathy" that'.

['British Bards'.] ]

[Footnote xxv:

'And shows dissolved in sympathetic tears'.

'----in thine own melting tears.--'

['MS. First to Fourth Editions'.]]

[Footnote xxvi:

'Whether in sighing winds them seek'st relief Or Consolation in a yellow leaf.--'

['MS. first to Fourth Editions.'] ]

[Footnote xxvii:

'What pretty sounds.'

['British Bards.'] ]

[Footnote xxviii:

'Thou fain woulds't----'

['British Bards.'] ]