page_title: Notebook of William Blake
section_title: Poems of 1808–1811
hierarchical_section_title: Notebook of William Blake / Poems of 1808–1811
caption_attribution_description: English: Blake manuscript - Notebook 1808 - 04 Was I angry with Hayley who usd me so ill
context_page_description: The Notebook of William Blake was used by William Blake as a commonplace book from c. 1787 to 1818.
context_section_description: The most of 92 texts of this section are epigrams, gnomic verses or fragments addressed to Blake's friends and enemies, to painters and poets as well as some different historical or mythological characters and even to God. Here are typical examples:
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  Was I angry with Hayley who usd me so ill
  
  Or can I be angry with Felphams old Mill
  
  Or angry with Flaxman or Cromek or Stothard
  
  Or poor Schiavonetti whom they to death botherd
  
  Or angry with Macklin or Boydel or Bowyer
  
  Because they did not say O what a Beau ye are
  
  At a Friends Errors Anger shew
  
  Mirth at the Errors of a Foe
   To God 
  If you have formd a Circle to go into
  
  Go into it yourself & see how you would do
  In the following short fragment Blake speaks of himself and his own spiritual experience in his babyhood:
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  The Angel that presided oer my birth
  
  Said Little creature formd of Joy & Mirth
  
  Go love without the help of any King on Earth
  There is also a draft of famous Blake's motto from his poem Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion:
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  I give you the end of a golden string,
  Only wind it into a ball:
  
  It will lead you in at Heavens gate,
  Built in Jerusalems wall.
  But there in "Jerusalem" at the beginning of the chapter 4 ("To the Christians") it is given in a combination with other 4 mysterious lines:
caption: "Was I angry with Hayley who us'd me so ill...", p.23
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