The 32d and last stanza is as follows:
"No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Nor seek to draw them from their dread abode--
(His frailties there in trembling hope repose);
The bosom of his Father and his God."[9]
[Footnote 9: The above are all the variations from the present text
in the Wrightson MS. which are noted by the authorities on whom we
have depended; but we suspect that the following readings, mentioned
by Mitford as in the MS., belong to _that_ MS., as they are _not_
found in the other: in the 7th stanza, "sickles" for "sickle;" in
18th, "shrines" for "shrine." Two others (in stanzas 9th and 27th)
are referred to in our account of the Pembroke MS. below.]
The Pembroke MS. has the following variations from the present
version: