[Footnote C:  ‘Romeo and Juliet’, act II. scene ii. l. 44.  This motto first appeared on the half-title of ‘Peter Bell’, second edition, 1819, under the advertisement of ‘Benjamin the Waggoner’, its first line being “What’s a Name?” When ‘The Waggoner’ appeared, a few days afterwards, the motto stood on its title-page.  In the collective edition of the Poems (1820), it disappeared; but reappeared, in its final position, in the edition of 1827.—­Ed.]

[Footnote D:  ‘Julius Caesar’, act I. scene ii. l. 147.—­Ed.]

[Footnote E:  Compare ‘The Prelude’, book iv. l. 47: 

  ’the sunny seat
  Round the stone table under the dark pine.’

Ed.]

[Footnote F:  In the dialect of the North, a hawker of earthen-ware is thus designated.—­W.  W. 1819 (second edition).]

[Footnote G:  Compare ‘The Prelude’, book v. l. 448: 

  ’At last, the dead man, ’mid that beauteous scene
  Of trees and hills and water, bolt upright
  Rose, with his ghastly face, a spectre shape
  Of terror.’

Ed.]

[Footnote H:  This and the next stanza were omitted from the edition of 1827, but restored in 1832.—­Ed.]

[Footnote I:  The notion is very general, that the Cross on the back and shoulders of this Animal has the origin here alluded to.—­W.  W. 1819.]

[Footnote J:  I cannot suffer this line to pass, without noticing that it was suggested by Mr. Haydon’s noble Picture of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem.—­W.  W. 1820.  Into the same picture Haydon “introduced Wordsworth bowing in reverence and awe.”  See the essay on “The Portraits of Wordsworth” in a later volume, and the portrait itself, which will be reproduced in the volume containing the ‘Life’ of the poet.—­Ed.]

[Footnote K:  The first and second editions of ‘Peter Bell’ (1819) contained, as frontispiece, an engraving by J.C.  Bromley, after a picture by Sir George Beaumont.  In 1807, Wordsworth wrote to Sir George: 

“I am quite delighted to hear of your picture for ‘Peter Bell’ ....  But remember that no poem of mine will ever be popular, and I am afraid that the sale of ‘Peter’ would not carry the expense of engraving ....  The people would love the poem of ‘Peter Bell’, but the public (a very different thing) will never love it.”

Some days before Wordsworth’s ‘Peter Bell’ was issued in 1819, another ‘Peter Bell’ was published by Messrs. Taylor and Hessey.  It was a parody written by J. Hamilton Reynolds, and issued as ’Peter Bell, a Lyrical Ballad’, with the sentence on its title page, “I do affirm that I am the real Simon Pure.”  The preface, which follows, is too paltry to quote; and the stanzas which make up the poem contain allusions to the more trivial of the early “Lyrical Ballads” (Betty Foy, Harry Gill, etc.).  Wordsworth’s ‘Peter Bell’ was published about a week later; and Shelley afterwards published his ‘Peter Bell the Third’.  Charles Lamb wrote to Wordsworth, in May 1819: