Note 657 — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 4)
Reading edition
The following lines occur only in the editions of 1814 and 1820.
—Yoke-fellows were they long and well approved To endure and to perform. With frugal pains, Yet in a course of generous discipline, Did this poor Churchman and his Consort rear Their progeny.—Of three—sent forth to try The paths of fortune in the open world, One, not endowed with firmness to resist The suit of pleasure, to his native Vale Returned, and humbly tilled his Father's glebe. —The youngest Daughter, too, in duty stayed To lighten her declining Mother's care. But, ere the bloom was passed away which health Preserved to adorn a cheek no longer young, Her heart, in course of nature, finding place For new affections, to the holy state Of wedlock they conducted her; but still The Bride adhering to those filial cares Dwelt with her Mate beneath her Father's roof. ... discipline MS. Their progeny was reared.—Of three that tried But, ere her bloom had fled by health preserved MS. To decorate a cheek no longer young,