Ken. Of the same category is the verb to ken, in the eighty-sixth line of Section II (page 397); and we should, perhaps, also note in this connection faery, in the thirtieth line of the same Section (page 396).

Comment. Not having at hand any information concerning the somewhat peculiar use of this word in Ginevra, I merely note it as unusual in modern English. It is in line 5 (page 104).

Depend. This verb in its primitive sense, as used in the Sonnet to the Nile (Volume III, page 411), is also peculiar in modern English; but Shelley uses it in the same sense in Section IV of Queen Mab, line 10 (page 411).

Many-mingling-In regard to a line which is common to Queen Mab and the second part of The Damon of the World, namely

Now to the sweet and many-mingling sounds,

it was pointed out, both in the third volume (page 371) and at page 449 of this volume, that many mingling stood without a hyphen in Shelley's edition of Queen Mab. Internal evidence is sufficient to mark this as an oversight; but the fact that the words are used to imply diversity of combination is further borne out by the occurrence of the term many-mingling (with the hyphen) in the early poem Falsehood and Vice (line 60) printed by Shelley in the Notes to Queen Mab, page 470 of this volume.

Sill. The word sill, as it occurs in the seventy-ninth stanza of the Hymn to Mercury, page 176 of this volume, is employed in a manner that is remarkably ingenious, and yet, as far as I can judge, strictly correct. It appears to be meant simply as an equivalent for seat, thus answering completely to the sense of the Greek; but to meet with it in a place so essentially modern as Shelley's version of this Hymn is something of a surprise:

thy sill

Is highest in heaven among the sons of Jove...

Mr. John W. Hales, with whom I have had some correspondence on certain points such as this, regards sill as being here a various spelling of sell, which is certainly a good old word for seat, generally, but not always, a saddle. As sill (base or foundation) becomes interchangeable with sell when compounded with ground, so as to yield the forms ground-sill, ground-sell, and groundsel, the distinction between the two words would not be very clearly marked to most poetic minds, and certainly not to Shelley's. Mr. Hales points out that in Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, the word sylle for seat is cited from an early manuscript. Apropos of the interchangeableness of e and i, the same gentleman has pointed out to me that upriste is used as a noun for uprising, by Chaucer: this is a more reasonable derivation for Shelley's uprest than that given at page 406 of the first volume.

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331

A Woodman whose rough heart was out of tune...

IV

II

Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary,... IV

1 In this Index of first lines are in-
Icluded those of the various scenes and
cantos of the longer poems, and also
several of lyrics in the text of such
longer poems. In the examples of
lyric drama which Shelley's works
include there are numerous choruses
and lyric movements, not following
any express break, and yet opening
fresh subjects so markedly, that the
first lines of them form landmarks

...

quite as distinct as the first lines of
the shorter poems. It has been
thought useful to include these in the
present index, and also to insert the
first lines of various fragments which
have stood independently in other
editions, but are now connected with
other fragments. The lines which
are on these grounds not strictly first
lines are distinguished by asterisks (*).

Alas! good friend, what profit can you see
*Alas! this is not what I thought life was.

All touch, all eye, all ear,

...

...

Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurl'd
Amid the desolation of a city,

Among the guests who often staid

...

...

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,—
And can'st thou mock mine agony, thus calm
And earnest to explore within-around
And ever as he went he swept a lyre
And, if my grief should still be dearer to me
And like a dying lady, lean and pale, ...
And many there were hurt by that strong boy,
And Peter Bell, when he had been

...

And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
*And the green Paradise which western waves
*And then came one of sweet and earnest looks,
*And what is that most brief and bright delight
And where is truth? On tombs ? for such to thee
And who feels discord now or sorrow?

...

III

187

IV

121

...

:

32

Bear witness, Erin! when thine injured isle...
Before those cruel Twins, whom at one birth
Beside the dimness of the glimmering sea,
Best and brightest, come away!

*Bright clouds float in heaven,

Bright wanderer, fair coquette of heaven,...

I

50

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