Dr. Greenlaw's Character--Quality of his School--Medwin's Anecdotes to the Doctor's Discredit--Mr. Gellibrand's Recollections of the Brentford Shelley--The Bullies of the Brentford Playground--Shelley's Character at the School--His Disposition to Somnambulism--His Delight in Novels--His Wretchedness at School--Shelleyan Egotism--Byronic Egotism--Byron's Influence on Shelley--Enduring Influence of Novels on Shelley's Mind--Stories of Boating--Easter Holidays in Wiltshire--'Essay on Friendship'--Its Biographical Value. CHAPTER V. THE ETON SCHOOLBOY 69 First year at Eton--Creation of the Castle-Goring Baronetcy-- Sir Bysshe Shelley's Last Will--Timothy Shelley's Children-- Miss Hellen Shelley's Recollections--The Etonian at Home-- The Big Tortoise--The Great Snake--Dr. Keate--Mr. Packe at fault--Walter Halliday--Mr. Hexter--Mr. Bethell--Fagging--Mad Shelley--'Old Walker'--Enthusiasm for Natural Science--The Rebel of the School--Lord High Atheist--Dr. Lind's Pernicious Influence on Shelley--Poetical Fictions about Dr. Lind-- Shelley's Illness at Field Place--His Monstrous Hallucination touching his Father--John Shelley the Lunatic--_Zastrozzi_-- Premature Withdrawal from Eton. CHAPTER VI. ZASTROZZI; A ROMANCE. BY P. B. S. 110 Literary Ambition--Biographical Value of _Zastrozzi_--The Etonian Shelley's Disesteem of Marriage--Review of the Romance--Julia and Matilda--Conceits of the Romance reproduced in _Laon and Cythna_--Egotisms of the Prose Tale and the Poem--The Original of Count Verezzi and Laon. CHAPTER VII. BETWEEN ETON AND OXFORD 123 Literary Interests and Enterprise--A.M. Oxon. Letter-- Shelley's Hunger for Publisher's Money--Winter 1809-10-- Nightmare--_The Wandering Jew_--Medwin in Lincoln's Inn Fields--The Fragment of Ahasuerus--Its Influence on Byron and Shelley--Matriculation at Oxford--Shelley at the Bodleian-- John Ballantyne and Co.--Shelley in Pall Mall--Stockdale's Scandalous _Budget_--_Victor and Cazire_--Their Original Poetry--Who was Cazire?--Felicia Dorothea Browne-- Illumination of Young Ladies--Harriett Grove--The Groves and Shelleys in London--Shelley's Interest in Harriett Grove. CHAPTER VIII. ST. IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN: A ROMANCE. BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 153