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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
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SONNET XXV.

Line 1.

'May my death remove every obstacle to your happiness.—Be at peace, I intreat you, be at peace.'
Sorrows of Werter. Volume Second.

Line 11.

When worms shall feed on this devoted heart,
Where even thy image shall be found no more.
From a line in Rousseau's Eloisa.


SONNET XXVI.

Line 5.

For with the infant Otway, lingering here.

Otway was born at Trotten, a village in Sussex. Of Woolbeding, another village on the banks of the Arun (which runs through them both), his father was rector. Here it was therefore that he probably passed many of his early years. The Arun is here an