No More Learning

For they all still imagin'd his hive full of honey;
Like a Church-warden, Adam continu'd his rounds, 1800. ]


[Variant 12:

1837.

. . . this . . . 1800. ]


[Variant 13:

1815.

. . . he kept to himself; 1800. ]


[Variant 14:

1820.
You lift up your eyes, "O the merciless Jew! "
But in truth he was never more cruel than you; 1800.

. . . --and I guess that you frame
A judgment too harsh of the sin and the shame; 1815. ]


[Variant 15:

1815.

. . . scarce e'en . . . 1800. ]


[Variant 16: _Italics_ first used in 1815. ]


[Variant 17:

1815.