1. On the assignation of the date 11th July to this Tiffin Lecture and the textual problems surrounding this, see endnote 1 in the previous lecture (p. 556).
2. ComD 1: f. 290.
3. ComD 1: f. 294.
4. The title in TTL/FF p. 81 and TTL p. 81 contains a typographic error—“BE AS SAME AS A SAGE . . .”; but “same” is corrected to “sane” in the other sources (TLD/DF: 11-7-26, p. 1, TLD/FF: 11-7-26, p. 1, and ChD 57: p. 87).
5. TTL/FF p. 81 and TTL p. 81 refer only to Mehelli’s ignorance, not his innocence: “For, he is quite ‘ignorant’ of all the affairs of pleasure . . .” But TLD/DF: 11-7-26, p. 1 gives us: “For he is quite INNOCENT, and consequently quite ‘ignorant’ of all the affairs of pleasure . . .” TLD/FF: 11-7-26, p. 1 reads similarly. ChD 57: p. 87 likewise contains both terms: “Why – bec[ause] he is quite ignorant & at the same time innocent of all the affairs connected with this organ.”
6. TTL/FF p. 81 and TTL p. 81 read, “be ye all as short, as able and as same . . . .” TLD/DF: 11-7-26, p. 1 and TLD/FF: 11-7-26, p. 1 offers what is plainly a superior text: “be ye all as alert, as able and as sane . . .” ChD 57: p. 88 reads similarly.