[27] The facts and dates relating to Brown in the above paragraph were furnished by his son, still living in New Zealand, to Mr Leslie Stephen, from whom I have them. The point about the Adventures of a Younger Son is confirmed by the fact that the mottoes in that work are mostly taken from the Keats MSS. then in Brown’s hands, especially Otho.
[28] Houghton MSS.
[32] In the extract I have modernized Drayton’s spelling and endeavoured to mend his punctuation: his grammatical constructions are past mending.
[33] Mrs Owen was, I think, certainly right in her main conception of an allegoric purpose vaguely underlying Keats’s narrative.
[34] Lempriere (after Pausanias) mentions Pæon as one of the fifty sons of Endymion (in the Elean version of the myth): and in Spenser’s Faerie Queene there is a Pæana—the daughter of the giant Corflambo in the fourth book. Keats probably had both of these in mind when he gave Endymion a sister and called her Peona.
[35] Book 1, Song 4. The point about Browne has been made by Mr W. T. Arnold.
[36] The following is a fair and characteristic enough specimen of Chamberlayne:—