ABSTRACT

This lampoon is drafted on f. 23r rev. of Nbk 10. The text has required some rearranging. After drafting ll. 1–4 (in the numbering below) S. continued with ll. 7–9; he then wrote the present ll. 5–6 apparently to follow on from l. 4 and marked the text accordingly: see note to ll. 5–6. It is possible that on revision he might have placed the present ll. 7–9 first, as they seem to state a general situation of which ll. 1–4 furnish a particular instance, but the order of the lines given below seems preferable on the MS evidence.