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Dowden and Woodberry print rightly which also appears in Forman’s by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Summary, Meaning & Analysis

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The poem
latest text (“Aldine Shelley”, 1892). 3. In a neat and happy home. (54 4.) For In (Wise manuscript, editions 1832, 1839) the Hunt manuscript reads To a neat, etc., which is adopted by Rossetti and Dowden, and appeared in Forman’s text of 1876. Woodberry and Forman (1892) print In a neat, etc. 4. Stanzas 70 3, 4; 71 1. These form one continuous clause in every text save the editio princeps, 1832, where a semicolon appears after around (70 4). 5. Our punctuation follows that of the Hunt manuscript, save in the following places, where a comma, wanting in the manuscript, is supplied in the text:—gay 47; came 58; waken 122; shaken 123; call 124; number 152; dwell 163; thou 209; thee 249; fashion 287; surprise 345; free 358. A semicolon is supplied after earth (line 131).

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