52. -----
"By day, 'twas gadding or coquetting". The first version after
'coquetting' begins a fresh paragraph with--
Now tawdry madam kept, etc.
l. 58. -----
"A sigh in suffocating smoke".
Here in the first version follows:--
She, in her turn, became perplexing,
And found substantial bliss in vexing.
Thus every hour was pass'd, etc.
l. 61. -----
"Thus as her faults each day were known". First version:
'Each day, the more her faults,' etc.
l. 71. -----
"Now, to perplex". The first version has 'Thus.'
But the alteration in line 61 made a change necessary.
l. 85. -----
"paste". First version 'pastes.'
l. 91. -----
"condemn'd to hack", i.e. to hackney, to plod.
A NEW SIMILE.
The 'New Simile' first appears in 'Essays: By Mr. Goldsmith, 1765, pp.
234-6, where it forms Essay xxvii. In the second edition of 1766 it
occupies pp.
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