[N] As they were—according to their Author's somewhat arbitrary classification—in the editions of 1815 and subsequent years.—ED.
[O] See Paradise Lost, book vii. l. 31.—ED.
[P] "Daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. She was regarded as the Muse of Astronomy, and was represented with a celestial globe, to which she points with a little staff" (Hirt. Mythol. Bilderb. p. 210).—ED.
[Q] Compare The Prelude, book i. l. 191 (see vol. iii. p. 138, notes * and ☨); Strabo, 1; Pliny, 6, c. 31 and 32; Horace, Odes IV., 8, v. 27; Plutarch, The Life of Sertorius.—ED.
[R] See Wordsworth's note (p. [383]).—ED.
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THE WANDERER[S]
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