[P. 136], ll. 17-24. Verse-quotation. From Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' book ii. ll. 636-43.
[P. 139], ll. 10-11. Verse-quotation. Ibid. book vi. ll. 767-8.
[P. 140], ll. 10-11. Verse-quotation. From Shakspeare, 'Lear,' iii. 2.
[P. 141], ll. 1-2. Verse-quotation. Ibid. 'Romeo and Juliet,' i. 4.
[P. 142], ll. 7-8. 12-13. Verse-quotation. From Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' book ix. 1002-3.
[P. 143]. Long verse-quotation. Charles Cotton, the associate 'Angler' of Walton 'for all time,' and of whom, as a Poet, Abp. Trench, in his 'Household Book of English Poetry,' has recently spoken highly yet measuredly.
[P. 152], footnote *. Various Readings. (1) 'Sonnet composed at—.' Such is the current heading of this Sonnet in the Poems (Rossetti, p. 177). In the MS. it runs, 'Written at Needpath (near Peebles), Mansion of the Duke of Queensbury' (sic); and thus opens:
'Now, as I live, I pity that great lord!
Whom pure despite of heart,' &c.;
instead of,
'Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy lord!
Whom mere,' &c.