English Bards

, p. 332, line 439, 

note 2

), have been torn out, and quarto proof-sheets in smaller type of lines 438-527, "Hail to immortal Jeffrey," etc., together with a quarto proof-sheet, in the same type as 

British Bards

, containing lines 540-559, "Illustrious Holland," etc., have been inserted. Hobhouse's lines (first edition, lines 247-262), which are not in the original draft, are included in 

British Bards

. The insertion of the proofs increased the printed matter to 584 lines. After the completion of this revised version of 

British Bards

, additions continued to be made. Marginal corrections and MS. fragments, bound up with 

British Bards

, together with forty-four lines (lines 723-726, 819-858) which do not occur in MS. M., make up with the printed matter the 696 lines which were published in March, 1809, under the title of 

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers

. The folio and quarto sheets in Mr. Murray's possession (

MS. M.

) may be regarded as the MS. of 

British Bards; British Bards

 (there are a few alterations, e.g. the substitution of lines 319-326, "Moravians, arise," etc., for the eight lines on Pratt, which are to be found in the folio MS., and are printed in 

British Bards

), with its accompanying MS. fragments, as the foundation of the text of the first edition of 

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