BUNBURY LETTER

situation : I hâve added, I hâve suppressed nothing ; I am total ly at a loss hov^ to act, and what to undertake. I canoot think of living with mj friends without a view of some employment or design, and 1 can form none, and I cannot continue in town veithout such, where the expense is (to me) much greater ; ray présent undertaking can be of no material service I find, and the uniuckj circumstance of printing so much of my miscellany renders it less so. I finish this tedious account by intreating your considération on my présent state and my future prospects. I cease to flatter myself, Sir; I only wish to live and to be as little a burden as possible to my friends, but my indiscrétion and my ill-fortune hâve so far carried me away that it requires a better judgment than my own to détermine what is right for me to do ; I do not wish, Sir, to obtmde my affairs too much upon you, but you hâve assisted and advised me, and even exclusive of the advantage I reap from your directions, I judged it right to give you this account : for ail that is past I most sincerely thank you; you hâve comforted, you hâve relieved, you hâve honoured me ; what is to come is in a situation like mine particularly mysterious ; but whatever cornes I will be grateful ; and with a remcmbrance of the benefits I hâve received I will ever cherîshthe highest respect for the name and virtues of my gênerons benefactor.

« I will wait upon you, Sir, as soon as possible with a fresh copy of my poem, correct as I hâve power to make it. In this I shall yct présume to ask your opinion ; on any other subject it will now become me to be silent; thus far I fcel a satisfaction from what I hâve written that it is entirely unrcserved, and that it goes to one who knows how to allow for indiscrétion and to pity misfortune. I am. Sir,

Most respectfully, Your much obliged and obed* sen'ant.

Geo. Cra^e.

Bishopsgate Street, June 26*'^.

Comparaison des deux textes de la " Blt>liothëque "

Nous donnons ici une descriptioQ de la première éditioD (rdolyme) de la Bibliothèque (1781) comparée à celle de i8o7('). Les vers i-5o sont identiques, sauf qu'au vers 33, il faut lire prevail s au lieu de <c avail n, et au vers a8 ■ with her old ilatering art... >.

5i Corne then, and entering view ihis spacions scène, 53 This sacred dôme, this noble magazine 53-6o Wherc mental weaith — their sober influence shed.

(On remarquera que deux vers, 53-4 de 1807, ont été ajoutas.) 61 In ihis sélection, which ihe human mind With care has made, for glory lias design'd. Ail sliould be perfecl ; or at least appear From falsehood, vaniiy and passion clear : G5 But man's best cfTorls tastc of man, and show

The poor and Iroubled source from whence ihey flow;

(V. 95 et 96 de 1807.) His verj- triumphs his defcats nmst speak, And c'en his wisdora serves to prove him weak. 69-72 Fashion, though folly's child — o'er her mother's foes [ — sont les vers 167-170 de 1807.

78-80 Yon folios — and the sons déride, — ont été reproduits [parB., p. io4. n- lEi.

I. Depuis la rédactiou de cet appendice, la comparaison a été faite ar A. W, Wabd (^Poemi bij George Crabbe, 1905, \>. 537-9). ^^ *'*' i\\ n'a pas rendu le noire inutile.