Note B — "WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED FAR AND NIGH"
Reading edition
In the editions of 1815 to 1832 (but not in 1807) this line was printed within inverted commas. The quotation marks were dropped, however, in subsequent editions (as in the quotation from Spenser, in the poem Beggars). In a note at the end of the volumes of 1807, Wordsworth says, "From a passage in Skelton, which I cannot here insert, not having the Book at hand."
The passage is as follows—
Her takelynge ryche, and of hye apparayle. Skelton's Bowge of Courte, stanza vi.—Ed.