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"Where they prepar'd A rotten carcase of a butt not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast, the very rats Instinctively have quit it." Adding, that in both changes he is supported by the corrector of the folio, 1632. Hanmer gives the passage exactly as the latter, and as Rowe does. We now come to the stage-directions in the folio, to which Mr. Collier gives, I think, a most exaggerated value.
"It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine!" August 30th. Drafts continue to be made from this ship to be sent off to Dartmoor Prison. There are but few of us remaining, and we are every day in expectation of removal.
On the 8th he set sail in the "Don Juan" That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th'eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, and was overtaken by the storm in which he perished. Three days after, Trelawny rode to Pisa, and told Byron of his fears, when the poet's lips quivered, and his voice faltered. On the 22nd of July the bodies of Shelley, Williams, and Vivian, were cast ashore.
I told him we pass'd the Seas in Ships, and gave him a Description of them, but could not make him have the least Idea of what I meant, till the next Day, that I hollow'd, shap'd, and rigg'd a Piece of Cork, made Sails of fine Linnen, and brought it to his Excellency in a Bason of Water.
"They hurried us aboard a bark; Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast: the very rats Instinctively had girt us " Tempest. The hour that succeeded in the calm of expectation, was one of the most disquieting of my life.
Then let this truth reciprocally run The sun's heaven's coalery, and coals our sun. No family E'er rigg'd a soul for heaven's discovery, With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes, with him in joy to share. Donne. Their thoughts and expressions were sometimes grossly absurd, and such as no figures or licence can reconcile to the understanding.
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