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i. 239.

John Keats

l. 333. _unpruned_, not trimmed.

 

PAGE 102. l. 343. _elfin-storm._ The beldame has suggested that he must

be 'liege-lord of all the elves and fays'.

 

l. 351. _o'er . . . moors._ A happy suggestion of a warmer clime.

 

PAGE 103. l. 355. _darkling._ Cf. _King Lear_, I. iv. 237: 'So out went

the candle and we were left darkling.' Cf. _Ode to a Nightingale_, l.

51.

 

l. 360. _And . . . floor._ There is the very sound of the wind in this

line.

 

PAGE 104. ll. 375-8. _Angela . . . cold._ The death of these two leaves

us with the thought of a young, bright world for the lovers to enjoy;

whilst at the same time it completes the contrast, which the first

introduction of the old bedesman suggested, between the old, the poor,

and the joyless, and the young, the rich, and the happy.