FOOTNOTES:

[1052:1] Published in the Morning Post, Dec. 21, 1799. Collated with two MSS.—MS. (1); MS. (2)—in the British Museum [Add. MSS. 27,902]. See Coleridge's Poems, A Facsimile of the Proofs, &c., edited by the late James Dykes Campbell, 1899. MS. 1 consists of thirty-two stanzas (unnumbered), written on nine pages: MS. 2 (which begins with stanza 6, and ends with stanza 30) of fourteen stanzas (unnumbered) written on four pages.

LINENOTES:

[Title]—The Dark Ladiè. MS. B. M. (1).

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Rose upon] Rose-bud on MS. B. M. (1).

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fair] dear erased MS. (1).

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mournfully] sad and sweet MS. (1).