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). Rossetti proposes interminable, or inexterminable.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

8.

A smile of godlike malice reillumed, etc. (7, line 180.)

The editio princeps and the first edition of “Poetical Works”, 1839,

read reillumined here, which is retained by Forman, Dowden, Woodberry.

With Rossetti, I follow Mrs. Shelley’s reading in “Poetical Works”, 1839

(2nd edition).

 

9.

One curse alone was spared—the name of God. (8, line 165.)

Removed from the text, “Poetical Works”, 1839 (1st edition); restored,

“Poetical Works”, 1839 (2nd edition). See Notes 3 and 6 above.

 

10.

Which from the exhaustless lore of human weal

Dawns on the virtuous mind, etc. (8, lines 204-205.)

With some hesitation as to lore, I reprint these lines as they are given

by Shelley himself in the note on this passage (supra). The text of 1813

runs:—

Which from the exhaustless store of human weal

Draws on the virtuous mind, etc.

This is retained by Woodberry, while Rossetti, Forman, and Dowden adopt

eclectic texts, Forman and Dowden reading lore and Draws, while

Rossetti, again, reads store and Dawns. Our text is supported by the

authority of Dr. Richard Garnett. The comma after infiniteness (line

206) has a metrical, not a logical, value.

 

11.

Nor searing Reason with the brand of God. (9, line 48.)

Removed from the text, “Poetical Works”, 1839 (1st edition), by Mrs.

Shelley, who failed, doubtless through an oversight, to restore it in

the second edition. See Notes 3, 6, and 9 above.

 

12.

Where neither avarice, cunning, pride, nor care, etc. (9, line 67.)

The editio princeps reads pride, or care, which is retained by Forman

and Woodberry. With Rossetti and Dowden, I follow Mrs. Shelley’s text,

“Poetical Works”, 1839 (both editions).