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Prefatory Note to 'The Grey Monk'

The original draft of 'The Grey Monk' is found on p. 12 of the Rossetti MS., where it forms part of xlii. The MS. Book version consisted of fourteen stanzas, which Blake afterwards separated into two poems—transcribing eight stanzas into the Pickering MS., under the title 'The Grey Monk,' and engraving seven as the untitled lines at the end of his 'Address to the