“and spread the plague of gold and blood abroad”
Charles the First, line 61:
“he looks elate, drunken with blood and gold”
Hellas, line 246:
“blood is the seed of gold.”
[3] Plato’s Banquet.
[4] I.e. To think.
[5] See for reference to this general prophecy, ch. ix of Pagan and Christian Creeds, by E. Carpenter. (George Allen & Unwin, 1921.)
[6] Stanza xlvii.
[7] “The charge of fickleness in friendship, so often brought against Shelley, is disproved by the simple fact that to the last day of his life he remained true to those who called him friend Leigh Hunt, Peacock, Hogg, Medwin, Williams, Trelawny” (Percy Shelley, Poet and Pioneer, by H.S. Salt, p. 62, footnote).