"At length within an Yvie todde (There shrouded was the little God) I heard a busie bustling." 23, 607--*While each to his great Father bends*, etc. Cf. the 148th Psalm (Prayer-Book Version) v. 12: "Young men and maidens, old men and children, praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is excellent, and his praise above heaven and earth." CHRISTABEL 25,6-7--This couplet ran as follows in the first edition: "Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, Hath a toothless mastiff bitch." In the editions of 1828 and 1829 Coleridge changed it to the form printed in the text; "but _bitch_ has been restored in all subsequent editions except Mr. Campbell's" (Garnett). 16--*thin gray cloud*, etc. The "thin gray cloud," as also the dancing leaf of ll. 49-52, was observed at Stowey. They are noted in Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal, January 31 and March 7, 1798. 26, 54--*Jesu*. This form of the word is nearer to the Hebrew original than the more familiar _Jesus_. It is often (though not exclusively) used in ejaculation and prayer, as here, and was perhaps supposed to be the vocative form. 27, 92--*I wis.* This is a misinterpretation of Middle English _iwis_, from Old English _gewis_, "certainly." 29, 129--*The lady sank,* etc. The threshold of a house is, in folk-lore, a sacred place, and evil things cannot cross but have to be carried over it. 142--*I cannot speak,* etc. Geraldine blesses "her gracious stars" (l. 114), but cannot join in praise to the Holy Virgin. 30, 167--*And jealous of the listening air*. This line was not in the first edition, but was added in the edition of 1828. 32, 252--*Behold! her bosom and half her side*, etc. There exist at least three versions of this passage. The text is that of the 1828 edition. The edition of 1816 lacked ll. 255-61, having only these lines between 253 and 262: "And she is to sleep by Christabel. She took two paces, and a stride," etc. The third form is that of a MS. copy of the poem once the property of Wordsworth's sister-in-law, Sarah Hutchinson, and recently published in facsimile by Mr. E.H. Coleridge, which gives this reading for ll. 253-4: "Are lean and old and foul of hue, And she is to sleep by Christabel."