[38:1.] P. 45, line 9. ‘Friend’: 1647, 1651.
The Tomb (p. 46).
[39:1.] P. 47, lines 19-20. In the version of 1647, these lines read:
‘And (thou in this flame sacrific’d to me),
We might each other’s mutual martyr be.’
‘And (thou in this flame sacrific’d to me),
We might each other’s mutual martyr be.’
The whole third stanza is reproduced from 1647; it figures neither in 1651 nor in 1657.
[39:2.] P. 47, line 30. ‘Love’: 1647; a manifest befogging duplication of the ‘love’ in the preceding line. ‘Kill’ seems to be called for, or perhaps ‘slay,’ a word less in favour with Stanley.
[40:1.] To Celia, pleading want of merit (p. 48).
1647: ‘To One that pleaded her own Want of Merit.’
[40:2.] P. 48, line 12. ‘My’: 1647.