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VARIATIONS.

Between ver. 25 and 26 were these lines, since omitted by the author:—

Many are spoil'd by that pedantic throng,

Who with great pains teach youth to reason wrong.

Tutors, like virtuosos, oft inclined

By strange transfusion to improve the mind,

Draw off the sense we have, to pour in new;

Which yet, with all their skill, they ne'er could do.

VER. 80,81:—

There are whom Heaven has bless'd with store of wit,

Yet want as much again to manage it.

VER. 123. The author after this verse originally inserted the following,

which he has however omitted in all the editions:—

Zoilus, had these been known, without a name

Had died, and Perault ne'er been damn'd to fame;

The sense of sound antiquity had reign'd,

And sacred Homer yet been unprofaned.

None e'er had thought his comprehensive mind

To modern customs, modern rules confined;

Who for all ages writ, and all mankind.

VER. 130, 131:—

When first young Maro sung of kings and wars,

Ere warning Phoebus touch'd his trembling ears