The
Boscombe
manuscript--evidently a first draft--from which
(through Dr.
(through Dr.
Shelley
A.
C.
Bradley.
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MARENGHI. (This fragment refers to an event told in Sismondi's
"Histoire des Republiques Italiennes", which occurred during the war
when Florence finally subdued Pisa, and reduced it to a
province. --[MRS. SHELLEY'S NOTE, 1824. ])
[Published in part (stanzas 7-15. ) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems",
1824; stanzas 1-28 by W. M. Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B.
S. ", 1870.
The Boscombe manuscript--evidently a first draft--from which
(through Dr. Garnett) Rossetti derived the text of 1870 is now at the
Bodleian, and has recently been collated by Mr. C. D. Locock, to whom
the enlarged and amended text here printed is owing. The substitution,
in title and text, of "Marenghi" for "Mazenghi" (1824) is due to
Rossetti. Here as elsewhere in the footnotes B. = the Bodleian
manuscript. ]
1.
Let those who pine in pride or in revenge,
Or think that ill for ill should be repaid,
Who barter wrong for wrong, until the exchange
Ruins the merchants of such thriftless trade,
Visit the tower of Vado, and unlearn _5
Such bitter faith beside Marenghi's urn.
2.
A massy tower yet overhangs the town,
A scattered group of ruined dwellings now. . .
. .
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MARENGHI. (This fragment refers to an event told in Sismondi's
"Histoire des Republiques Italiennes", which occurred during the war
when Florence finally subdued Pisa, and reduced it to a
province. --[MRS. SHELLEY'S NOTE, 1824. ])
[Published in part (stanzas 7-15. ) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems",
1824; stanzas 1-28 by W. M. Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B.
S. ", 1870.
The Boscombe manuscript--evidently a first draft--from which
(through Dr. Garnett) Rossetti derived the text of 1870 is now at the
Bodleian, and has recently been collated by Mr. C. D. Locock, to whom
the enlarged and amended text here printed is owing. The substitution,
in title and text, of "Marenghi" for "Mazenghi" (1824) is due to
Rossetti. Here as elsewhere in the footnotes B. = the Bodleian
manuscript. ]
1.
Let those who pine in pride or in revenge,
Or think that ill for ill should be repaid,
Who barter wrong for wrong, until the exchange
Ruins the merchants of such thriftless trade,
Visit the tower of Vado, and unlearn _5
Such bitter faith beside Marenghi's urn.
2.
A massy tower yet overhangs the town,
A scattered group of ruined dwellings now. . .
. .
