Note 143 — I. Yet other Twelve Wonders of the World.[138]
Reading edition
In Sir Egerton Brydges edition of the Rhapsody this line stands
"My dying husband knew," &c.
an interpolation which, though perhaps called for by the metre, does not appear to be justified by either of the four editions supposed to have been printed during the life-time of the original editor. Nicolas. [True, but as it is found in an autograph MS. of the poem, it is inserted. See our Preface. G.]