Book I

. Canto IV. Stanza 13.

_Joanna Southcote._ Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), the fanatic and impostor, whose prophesies had recently caused a good deal of excitement.

122. ‘_Thick-coming fancies._’ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

123. _The ‘Friend.’_ Published in numbers at irregular intervals between June 1809 and March 1810. Coleridge published a recast—‘a complete Rifacimento’—of _The Friend_ in 1818.

‘_Like the swan’s down feather_,’ _etc._ _Antony and Cleopatra_,

## Act III. Sc. 2.

124. ‘_They are not sought for_,’ _etc._ These words are quoted by Coleridge from _Ecclesiasticus_, xxxviii. 33–34. See _A Lay Sermon_, 308–309.

126. ‘_Twice ten degrees_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, X. 669–670.

‘_With jealous leer malign._’ _Ibid._, IV. 503.

127. ‘_Fraught with potential infidelity._’ _A Lay Sermon_, p. 329.

131. _The Watchman._ _The Watchman_ ran from March to May, 1796. Coleridge gives an account of his tour to procure subscribers. See _Biographia Literaria_, Chap. X. The _Conciones ad Populum_, originally published in 1795, were reprinted in _Essays on his own Times_ (1850).

_One of Goldsmith’s Essays._ See _A Lay Sermon_, p. 319 note.

_As Gulliver did, etc._ See _A Voyage to Brobdingnag_, Chap. V.

132. ‘_As Alps o’er Alps arise._’ Pope, _An Essay on Criticism_, II. 232.

134. ‘_High enthroned_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, III. 58.

135. ‘_It is by means_,’ _etc._ See Hobbes, _Leviathan_,