Book II

. Canto XII. St. 77.

259. ‘_There the antics sit._’ _Richard II._, Act. III. Sc. 2.

‘_Palsied eld._’ _Measure for Measure_, Act III. Sc. 1.

260. _Mr. Shelley died, etc._ When Shelley’s body was cast ashore near Via Reggio (July 18, 1822), a volume of Keats’s poems was found in one pocket, and a volume of Sophocles in the other.

_Two out of four poets, patriots, and friends._ The four poets were presumably Shelley, Keats, Byron and Leigh Hunt.

_Keats died young, etc._ Cf. vol. VI. (_Table Talk_) p. 99.

_A third has since been added, etc._ Byron died at Mesolonghi, April 19, 1824.

261. _Mrs. Shelley._ Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797–1851) married to Shelley, Dec. 30, 1816.

_Alastor._ Originally published in 1816.

_Translation of the May-day Night._ Published in _The Liberal_.

_Julian and Maddalo._ This poem, first published in _Posthumous Poems_, had been sent to Leigh Hunt in 1819 for publication by Ollier.

264. ‘_Made as flax._’ Cf. _Judges_, XV. 14.

267. _The Letter to a Friend in London._ The _Letter to Maria Gisborne_ presumably.

‘_Toys of feathered cupid._’ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 3.

269. ‘_The sun is warm_,’ _etc._ _Stanzas written in dejection near Naples._

270. _Mr. Keats’s sounding lines._ _Endymion_,