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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III

INTRODUCTION
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21, 1799 .-- Ed.] [Footnote K: See Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, _passim._--Ed.] [Footnote L: Compare the 2nd and 3rd of the 'Stanzas written in my pocket-copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence', vol.ii.p.

306, and the note appended to that poem .-- Ed.] [Footnote M: Mithridates (the Great) of Pontus, 131 B.C.to 63 B.C.
Vanquished by Pompey, B.C.65, he fled to his son-in-law, Tigranes, in Armenia.

Being refused an asylum, he committed suicide.

I cannot trace the legend of Mithridates becoming Odin.

Probably Wordsworth means that he would invent, rather than "relate," the story.


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