12/21 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. 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. |