ll. Shelley did good, and perhaps some harm with it.
Keats's joy was after all a flawless gift.

Keats wrote to Shelley:--"You, I am sure, will forgive me
for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity
and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your
subject with ore." Cheeky!--but not so much amiss. Poetry,
and no prophecy however, must come of that mood,--and no
pulpit would have held Keats's wings,--the body and mind
together were not heavy enough for a counterweight.... Did
you ever meet with

<center>ENDIMION

AN EXCELLENT FANCY FIRST COMPOSED IN FRENCH

By Monsieur GOMBAULD

AND NOW ELEGANTLY INTERPRETED

By RICHARD HURST, Gentleman

1639.

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It has very finely engraved plates of the late Flemish type.
There is a poem of Vaughan's on Gombauld's _Endimion_, which
might make one think it more fascinating than it really is.
Though rather prolix, however, it has attractions as a
somewhat devious romantic treatment of the subject. The
little book is one of the first I remember in this world,
and I used to dip into it again and again as a child, but
never yet read it through. I still possess it. I dare say it
is not easily met with, and should suppose Keats had
probably never seen it. If he had, he might really have
taken a hint or two for his scheme, which is hardly so clear
even as Gombauld's, though its endless digressions teem with
beauty.... I do not think you would benefit at all by seeing
Gombauld's _Endimion_. Vaughan's poem on it might be worth
quoting as showing what attention the subject had received
before Keats. I have the poem in Gilfillan's _Less-Known
Poets_.

Rossetti took a great interest in the fund started for the relief of
Mme. de Llanos, Keats's sister, whose circumstances were seriously
reduced. He wrote:

By the bye, I don't know whether the subscription for
Keats's old and only surviving sister (Madme de Llanos) has
been at all ventilated in Liverpool. It flags sorely. Do you
think there would be any chance in your neighbourhood? If
so, prospectuses, etc., could be sent.

I did not view the prospect of subscriptions as very hopeful, and so
conceived the idea of a lecture in the interests of the fund. On this
project, Rossetti wrote:

I enclose prospectuses as to the Keats subscription. I m