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208. haply. LH chance.
[No alteration made to the text.]

209 - 10. One of the few passages in which Schick's theory of
deliberate internal rime finds some support.
[See the comment on line 68.]

2I5. that. H the.
[No alteration made to the text.]

[The lines 313 - 16 referred to in the following comment had been
bracketed for exclusion, and that at 3 I 7 changed to Then, before the text
went to Lewis.]

313. H reads Thus Morgoth loved that his own foe
Should in his service deal the blow.
Then Beren...

'Our scribe is right in his erasure of the second distych,
but wrong in his erasure of the first' (Peabody). The
first erased couplet certainly deserves to remain in the
text; indeed its loss seriously impairs the reality of
Morgoth. I should print as in H, enclosing Thus...
blow in brackets or dashes.



[My father ticked the first two lines (313-14), which may show that he
accepted this suggestion. I have let all four stand in the text.]

400. Of Canto z as a whole Peabody writes: 'If this is not
good romantic narrative, I confess myself ignorant of
the meaning of the words.'

401. et seq. A more philosophical account of the period is
given in the so called Poema Historiale, probably
contemporary with the earliest MSS of the Geste.
The relevant passage runs as follows:

There was a time before the ancient sun
And swinging wheels of heaven had learned
to run
More certainly than dreams; for dreams
themselves
Had bodies then and filled the world with elves.
The starveling lusts whose walk is now
confined
To darkness and the cellarage of the mind,
And shudderings and despairs and shapes of sin
Then walked at large, and were not cooped