e hides the dark-blue orbs beneath,
The baby Sleep is pillowed."

Shelley's _Queen Mab_, i., _ibid._, p. 104.]

[126] {258}["Time is our consciousness of the succession of ideas in our
mind.... One man is stretched on the rack during twelve hours, another
sleeps soundly in his bed. The difference of time perceived by these two
persons is immense: one hardly will believe that half an hour has
elapsed, the other could credit that centuries had flown during his
agony."--Shelley's note to the lines--

" ... the thoughts that rise
In time-destroying infiniteness."

_Queen Mab_, viii., _ibid._, p. 136.]

[127] {259}[_Vide ante_, p. 208.]

[128] {260}[It is Adah, Cain's wife, who suggests the disastrous
compromise, not a "burnt-offering," but the "fruits of the earth," which
would cost the giver little or nothing--an instance in point of
Lucifer's cynical reminder (_vide ante_, act ii. sc. 2, line 210, p.
247) "that there are some things still which woman may tempt man to."]

[129] {262}["From the beginning" the woman is ineligible for the
priesthood--"He for God only, she for God in him" (_Paradise Lost_, iv.
299). "Let the women keep silence in the churches" (_Corinthians_, i.
xiv. 34).]

[130] {264}[Compare the following passage from _La Rapresentatione di
Abel et di Caino_ (in Firenze l'anno MDLIV.)--

"Abel parla a dio fatto il sacrifitio,
Rendendogli laude.
Signor per cui di tanti bene abondo
Liquali tu sommamente mi concedi
Tanto mi piace, et tanto me' giocondo
Quanto delle mie greggie che tu vedi
El piu grasso el migliore el piu mondo
Ti do con lieto core come tu vedi
Tu vedi la intentione con lequal vegno," etc.]

[ck] {265} _Which must be won with prayers--if he be evil_.--[MS. M.]

[131] {266}[See Gessner's _Death of Abel_.]

[132] {268}[Compare--

"How wonderful is Death--
Death and his brother Sleep!"

_Queen Mab_, i. lines 1, 2.]

[133] {271}[Compare--

"And Water shall hear me,
And know thee and fly thee;
And the Winds shall not touch thee
When they pass by thee....
And thou shalt seek Death
To release thee in vain."

_The Curse of Kehama_, by R. Southey, Canto II.]

[134] [The last three lines of this terrible denunciation were not in
the original MS.