[7] In his printed account of the matter Clarke calls the victim definitely a kitten, and says of Keats: 'He thought he should be beaten, for the fellow was the taller and stronger; but like an authentic pugilist, my young poet found that he had planted a blow which "told" upon his antagonist; in every succeeding round therefore (for they fought nearly an hour), he never failed of returning to the weak point, and the contest ended in the hulk being led home.' [8] Joseph Henry Green, afterwards F.R.S. and Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy; distinguished alike as a teacher in his own profession and as a disciple and interpreter of Coleridge's philosophy. [9] _Cornhill Magazine_, April 1917: 'A Talk with Coleridge,' edited by Miss E. M. Green. [10] [Greek: kai pheugei phileonta kai ou phileonta diokei.] Theocr. Idyll. vi. 27. [11] I use the foot nomenclature for convenience, because to count by stresses seems to make the point less immediately clear, while to count by syllables would involve pointing out that in the last lines of stanzas ii, iv, ix and xi the movement is varied by resolving the light first syllable into two that take the time of one. [12] Brown, writing many years after the events, must be a little out here, seeing that already on April 30th Keats tells his brother that Brown is busy 'rummaging out his Keats's old sins, that is to say sonnets.' (Note that Keats mentions no odes). Brown is in like manner wrong in remembering the draft of the Nightingale ode as written on 'four or five scraps' when it was in fact written on two, as became apparent when it appeared in the market thirteen years ago (see _Monthly Review_, March 1903). It is now in the collection of Lord Crewe. [13] When in 1823-4 their existence was disclosed and they were divided on the order of the Court of Chancery between George Keats and his sister, they amounted with accumulations of interest to a little over L4500. CHAPTER XII JUNE 1819-JANUARY 1820: SHANKLIN, WINCHESTER, HAMPSTEAD: TROUBLE AND HEALTH FAILURE Work on _Otho_ and _Lamia_--Letters to Fanny Brawne--Keats as lover--An imagined future--Change to Winchester--Work and fine weather--Ill news from George--A run to town--A talk with Woodhouse--Woodhouse as critic--Alone at Winchester--Spirited letters: to his brother--To Reynolds, Brown, and Dilke--Hopes and resolutions--Will work for the press--Attempt and breakdown--Return to Wentworth Place--Morning and evening tasks--Cries of passion--Signs of despondency--Testimony of Brown--Haydon's exaggerations--Schemes and doings--Visit of George Keats--Pleasantry and bitterness--Beginning of the end.