I am obliged to M. for his notice of my paper upon this poem, and gratified by his concurrence with my remarks.
Very likely M. may be right in his explanations of the "incuria" imputed by me to the great author, and I may have made a mistake, without pleading guilty to the same charge: but if M. will refer to the 4th and two following Sections of sixth canto of the Lay, he will find it thus written:
"Me lists not at this tide declare
The splendour of the spousal rite," &c.
Again, Sec. V.:
"Some bards have sung, the Ladye high
Chapel or altar came not nigh;
Nor dust the rites of spousal grace
So much she feared each holy place," &c.
Again, Sec. VI.: