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82 corroborates the view that the reading recorded above is what Keats intended. It is, moreover, far more effective.

In stanza 7 there is little divergence to remark upon. In the last line Keats wrote last. Lord Houghton printed lost in 1848, but in the Aldine edition corrected to last. Mr. Buxton Forman, regarding the Aldine last as a misprint (as, indeed, it is quite likely to have been), reproduced in his editions the reading of the first edition.

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intimate friend of Father Paul's, even more so than Wotton, was that truly -excellent man William Bedell, afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, in Ireland. Sir Henry Wotton, in a letter which he addressed to King Charles I. in Bedell's interest, uses this expression : "This is the Man whom Padre Paulo took (I may say) into his very Soul " <' Life,' p. 32). Bedell was chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton in Venice for eight years, and Burnet, in his life of the bishop, has many sympathetic references to Father Paul, -and what follows may suffice in the way of quotation (p. 7) :

Towards the close of the year in which he published his ' Life of William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore,' viz., 1685, Bishop Burnet visited the city of Venice. By this time Father Paul was dead nearly sixty-three years, and the following is the only reference Burnet makes to him. I must say there is such an air of indifferency in his remarks as we should scarcely expect from a man who wrote the life of one of Father Paul's dearest friends (' Letters,' ed. 1687, p. 109) :

In a letter, without date, and from the initials addressed to Sir Henry Goodier, Dr. Donne mentions Father Paul by name and no more (p. 144) :—

As far as I can make out, this is the only mention by Donne of Father Paul in the collection of 'Letters' published by his son in 1651. Turning, however, to 'The Life and Letters of John Donne' (2 vols., 1899), by Mr. Gosse what a wealth of most interest- ing matter he has brought together in this delightful biography, worthy alike of his subject and of himself ! I find the following bequest in Dr. Donne's will (vol. ii. p. 360) :