Note 33:2 — VI. LYRICS PRINTED IN ALL ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF STANLEY.

P. 41, line 56. May the Editor be forgiven for altering, with no explicit help from printed texts, one word of this splendid lyric, in the very best impudent spirit of the time? The second ‘hearts’ in the closing line reads ‘they’ in all editions of Stanley. It is possible that this word ‘they’ has been caught from the line just before, after a fashion only too familiar to copyists and printers. Even so, it would mean not ‘lovers’ but ‘hearts.’ The word ‘hearts,’ one is tempted to think, may be the right word.