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 and perpetuated in his several editions of the poems by Mr. H. Buxton Forman. Reasoning, Mr. W. M. Rossetti's conjectural emendation, is manifestly the right word here, and has been adopted by Dowden and Woodberry.

Him, still from hope to hope, etc. (Note on VIII. 203-207.)

See editor's note (10) on Queen Mab above.

A Dialogue.—The titles of this poem, of the stanzas On an Icicle, etc., and of the lines To Death, were first given by Professor Dowden (P. W. of P. B. S., 1890) from the Esdaile MS. book. The textual corrections from the same quarter (see footnotes passim) are also owing to Professor Dowden.

Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire.—Dr. Garnett, who in 1898 edited for Mr. John Lane a reprint of these long-lost verses, identifies Victor's coadjutrix, Cazire, with Elizabeth Shelley, the poet's sister. 'The two initial pieces are the only two which can be attributed to Elizabeth Shelley with absolute certainty, though others in the volume may possibly belong to her' (Garnett).

Saint Edmond's Eve. This ballad-tale was "conveyed" in its entirety by Cazire from Matthew Gregory Lewis's Tales of Terror, 1801, where it appears under the title of The Black Canon of Elmham; or, Saint Edmond's Eve. Stockdale, the publisher of Victor and Cazire, detected the imposition, and communicated his discovery to Shelley—when 'with all the ardour natural to his character he [Shelley] expressed the warmest resentment at the imposition practised upon him by his coadjutor, and entreated me to destroy all the copies, of which about one hundred had been put into circulation.'

To Mary who Died in this Opinion.—From a letter addressed by Shelley to Miss Hitchener, dated November 23, 1811.

A Tale of Society.—The titles of this and the following piece were first given by Professor Dowden from the Esdaile MS., from which also one or two corrections in the text of both poems, made in Macmillan's edition of 1890, were derived.

(1) Original Poetry; | By Victor and Cazire. | Call it not vain:—they do not err, | Who say, that, when the poet dies, | Mute Nature mourns her worshipper. | Lay of the Last Minstrel. | Worthing | Printed by C. and W. Phillips, | for the Authors; | And sold by J. J. Stockdale, 41, Pall-Mall, | And all other Booksellers. | 1810.