250—to Lord Holland
September 26, 1812.
You will think there is no end to my villanous emendations. The fifth and sixth lines I think to alter thus:
Ye who beheld—oh sight admired and mourn'd,
Whose radiance mock'd the ruin it adorn'd;
because "night" is repeated the next line but one; and, as it now stands, the conclusion of the paragraph, "worthy him (Shakspeare) and
you
," appears to apply the "
you