[16] [The first edition reads "grantor." In the MS. the word may be either "granter" or "grantor." "Grantor" is a technical term, in law, for one "who grants a conveyance.">[
[17] {50}[According to Ælian, Var. Hist., vii. i, Semiramis, having obtained from her husband permission to rule over Asia for five days, thrust him into a dungeon, and obtained the sovereign power for herself (ed. Paris, 1858, p. 355).]
[o] {52} Aye—that's earnest!—[MS. M. erased.]
[p] {54} Nay, if thou wilt not——.—[MS. M. erased.]
[q] {56}
Nor silent Baal, our imaged deity,
Although his marble face looks frowningly,
As the dusk shadows of the evening cast
His trow in coming dimness and at times.—[MS. M. erased.]