FOOTNOTES:
[224:1] The descriptive phrase above might really, at a pinch, be applied to Annabella Milbanke.
[236:1] Note the fierceness achieved by the shortening and the alliteration in this line.
[238:1] Mark how the deferred rhymes paint the groping thoughts. Only after much questioning can the answer come, as it were, in the "chime of the rhyme."
[239:1] And men also, I hasten to add, that there may be no pluming of male feathers—if indeed this be an occasion for pluming on either side.