[Page 94]. l. [198]. fray'd, frightened.
l. [203]. No uttered . . . betide. Another of the conditions of the vision was evidently silence.
[Page 95]. ll. [208 seq.] Compare Coleridge's description of Christabel's room: Christabel, i. 175-83.
l. [218]. gules, blood-red.
[Page 96]. l. [226]. Vespers. Cf. Isabella, l. [21], ll. [226-34]. See Introduction, p. [213].
l. [237]. poppied, because of the sleep-giving property of the poppy-heads.
l. [241]. Clasp'd . . . pray. The sacredness of her beauty is felt here.
missal, prayer-book.
[Page 97]. l. [247]. To wake . . . tenderness. He waited to hear, by the sound of her breathing, that she was asleep.
l. [250]. Noiseless . . . wilderness. We picture a man creeping over a wide plain, fearing that any sound he makes will arouse some wild beast or other frightful thing.