132.] [Footnote 21: From the Prologue to _Asolando_, Browning's last volume.] [Footnote 22: Mrs Orr, "Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning," p.

54 (1st ed.).] [Footnote 23: _A Soul's Tragedy_ was written in 1843 or 1844, and revised immediately before publication.

See Letters of R.B.and E.B.B., i.

474.] [Footnote 24: Letters of D.G.Rossetti to William Allingham, p.

168.] [Footnote 25: The above statement is substantially that of Browning; but on certain points his memory misled him.