where noted.

Some illustrations moved to one page later.

Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.

Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=.

Emphasized words within italics indicated by plus +emphasis+.

Transcriber Changes

The following changes were made to the original text:

Page 10: Removed extra quote after Keats (What porridge had John
=Keats?=)

Page 21: Was 'blurrs' (Stray-leaves, fragments, =blurs= and blottings)

Page 49: Paragraph continued, no quote needed (=Tibullus= gives
Virgil equal credit for having in his writings touched
with telling truth)

Page 53: Was 'Shakesspeare' (Jonson wrote for the First Folio edition
of =Shakespeare= printed in 1623)

Page 53: Was 'B. I.' (=B. J.=)

Page 53: Added single quotes (Shakespeare's talk in "At the
='Mermaid'=" grows out of the supposition)

Page 69: Was 'Shakepeare's' (He thinks the opening Sonnets are to the
Earl of Southampton, known to be =Shakespeare's= patron)

Page 81: Added comma after Strafford (not Pym, the leader of the
people, but =Strafford,= the supporter of the King.)

Page 85: Added end quote (some half-dozen years of immunity to the
'fretted tenement' of Strafford's 'fiery =soul'=)

Page 91: Capitalized King (The =King=, upon his visit to Scotland,
had been shocked)

Page 100: Was 'Finnees' (Hampden, Hollis, the younger Vane, Rudyard,
=Fiennes= and many of the Presbyterian Party)

Page 136: Removed extra start quote ("Be my friend =Of= friends!"--My
King! I would have....)

Page 137: Was 'brillance' (The else imperial =brilliance= of your mind)

Page 137: Was 'you way' (If Pym is busy,--=you may= write of Pym.)

Page 140: Capitalized King (the =King=, therefore, summoned it to meet
on the third of November.)

Page 142: Matching the original: leaving it hyphenated (the greatest
in England would have stood =dis-covered=.')

Page 172: Was 'Partiot' (The =Patriot= Pym, or the Apostate Strafford!)

Page 174: Was 'perfers' (The King =prefers= to leave the door ajar)

Page 178: Was 'her's' (I am =hers= now, and I will die.)

Page 193: Was 'Bethrothal' (Till death us do join past parting--that
sounds like =Betrothal= indeed!)

Page 200: Was 'canonade' (Such a castle seldom crumbles by sheer
stress of