Note 50 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Cf. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, I, 48: “the wingless, crawling hours.” This phrase (“my part in submitting ... minutes”) and the remainder of the paragraph are an elaboration of the simple phrase in F of F—A, “my part in enduring it—,” with its ambiguous pronoun. The last page of Chapter VIII shows many corrections, even in the MS of Mathilda. It is another passage that Mary seems to have written in some agitation of spirit. Cf. note 26.