1 This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the daily practice of solemnly asseverating the most enormous falsehood, I fear deserves the notice of a more active Attorney General than that here alluded to.-[SHELLEY'S NOTE.]

Such were his fellow-servants; thus
His virtue, like our own, was
built
Too much on that indignant fuss 290
Hypocrite Pride stirs up in us
To bully one another's guilt.

And Burns, a Scottish peasant boy-
His errors prove it-knew my joy 326
More, learned friend, than you.

292 one Fleay cj., Rossetti, Forman, Dowden, Woodberry; out 1839, 2nd ed.

Then seriatim, month and quarter, Appeared such mad tirades.-One said

471

We warned you whilst yet on the
You stood. From your black name
brink
will shrink

The babe that is unborn.'

VII

All these Reviews the Devil made
For carriage, tenpence Peter paid-
Up in a parcel, which he had
Safely to Peter's house conveyed. 490
Untied them-read them - went
half mad.

6

VIII

What!' cried he, 'this is

my

reward For nights of thought, and days of toil?

495

Do poets, but to be abhorred
By men of whom they never heard,
Consume their spirits' oil?

IX

'Peter seduced Mrs. Foy's daughter, Then drowned the mother in Ullswater, The last thing as he went to bed.' To speak of me and Betty so! Is Mrs. Foy? "Tis very cruel Adultery! God defend me! Oh! I've half a mind to fight a duel.

'What have I done to them ?—and who

IV

Another-'Let him shave his head! Where's Dr. Willis ?-Or is he joking?

What does the rascal

hope,

mean or

475

No longer imitating Pope,
In that barbarian Shakespeare
poking?'

V

One more, 'Is incest not enough?
And must there be adultery too?
500 Betty] Emma 1839, 2nd ed.
Memorials, p. 139).

Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune?'

See letter from Shelley to Olier, May 14, 1820 (Shelley