[sg] A gloss of candour of a web of wiles.—[MS. M.]
[sh] {543} Lines 65-68 were added April 2, 1816.
[si] The parenthesis was added April 2, 1816.
[sj] Look on her body——.—[MS. M.]
[435] [See Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2, line 31.]
[sk] Where all that gaze upon her droop or die.—[MS. altered April 2, 1816.]
[436] Lines 85-91 were added April 2, 1816, on a page endorsed, "Quick—quick—quick—quick."
[sl] {544} ——in thy poisoned clay.—[MS. M. erased.]
[437] ["I doubt about 'weltering' but the dictionary should decide—look at it. We say 'weltering in blood'—but do they not also use 'weltering in the wind' 'weltering on a gibbet'?—there is no dictionary, so look or ask. In the meantime, I have put 'festering,' which perhaps in any case is the best word of the two.—P.S. Be quick. Shakespeare has it often and I do not think it too strong for the figure in this thing."—Letter to Murray, April 2.]
[sm] And weltering in the infamy of years.—[MS. M.]