NOTES
1. 15 mind: This is Lamb's second extract from Wither, and W.'s text only differs in minor punctuation.
41 Both these extracts are from 'Fair Virtue' &c. (Arber's Garner, iv. pp. 415 and 413).
1. 3 Sometime (1633), Sometimes (C. Lamb, and Arber).
1. 4 unheard-of (Arber ; ed. 1633 as W.). Lamb separates these four lines from preceding by a row of asterisks. Wordsworth's transcriber has evidently had Lamb's essay before her for all the Wither extracts save the first one.
42 Cornelia's Dirge from 'The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona,' by John Webster. Collated with Dyce's ed.
1. 5 Call unto
1. 9 far thence
C. Lamb, in Specimens, says: I 'never saw anything like the funeral dirge in this play for the death of Marcello, except the ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in the "Tempest." As that is of the water, watery; so this is of the earth, earthy. Both have that intensity of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the element which it contemplates.'
43 Cowper's Poems (Globe ed., p. 165).
44 1. 22 see thee
45 Thomson's Poems (Aldine ed. ii. 202); eighteen lines are omitted after line 6.
46 1. 29 pain
47 This is the seventh stanza of Beattie's poem, 'Retirement,' in ten stanzas {Poems, Aldine ed., p. 63).
48 John Langhorne's Poetical Works, 2 vols., 1766. Collected ed. by his son, 1804. Collated with text in Anderson's British Poets, 1795, vol. xi. p. 233. The poem is dated 1758. W. omits the first and third stanzas. See Knight's W. xi. 273.
1. 5 gales [om.,]
1. 8 repose [,]
1. 11 bread [om.,]
49 Poems, Aldine ed. ii. 226: 'To the Reverend Patrick Murdoch, Rector of Stradishall, in Suffolk, 1738.'Murdoch was the 'little round fat oily man of God ' described in the 'Castle of Indolence,' and Thomson's especial friend.
In 1. 7 'philosopic' is an unusual slip of a very accurate pen.
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