1. Wordsworth: The Poems, 3 vols., ed. John O. Hayden (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), I, 588, 11.33–6.
2. A six-line stanza with two rhymes; three iambic tetrameters rhyming aaa, followed by a dimeter, rhyming b, another tetrameter rhyming a, and a dimeter rhyming
3. b. The stanza is named after Robert Sempill of Beltree’s (?1600?-1660) mock elegy for Habbie Simson, Piper of Kilbarchan
4. Ibid., 11.41–2.
5. Wordsworth later attacked Currie for publicly parading Burns’ ‘pernicious habits’, but the poems about Burns written during and after the Scottish tour, particularly ‘To the Sons of Burns’ 11.39–42, effectively reiterate his moralistic criticism. See ‘A Letter to a Friend of Burns’ (1816) in Wordsworth’s Selected Prose, ed. John Hayden (Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1988), p. 416 and ‘To the Sons of Burns’, Poems, I, 659.