[12] Josh. iv. 8.—These notes are not Shelley’s.
[13] Theogn. 5 foll.; Homer’s Hymn to Apollo, i. 25.
[14] Probably Xenophon, Cyrop. VIII. vii. 2.
[15] Gen. vi.
[16] Iliad, xxiv.
[17] Shelley may refer to the proverbial phrase ‘to kick against the pricks’ (Acts xxvi. 14), which, however, is found in Pindar and Euripides as well as in Aeschylus (Prom. 323).
[18] Trelawny’s letter, 3 April 1870; in Mr. H. Buxton Forman’s edition, 1910, p. 229.
[19] I. e. ed. H. Buxton Forman, p. 253.
[20] Demeter and Persephone, 1889; The Garden of Proserpine, 1866; The Appeasement of Demeter, 1888.
[21] To adduce an example—in what is probably not an easily accessible book to-day: Proserpine, distributing her flowers, thus addresses one of her nymphs:
For this lily,
Where can it hang but at Cyane’s breast!
And yet ’twill wither on so white a bed,
If flowers have sense for envy.