“Will you forward the letter to Mr. Gifford with the proof? There is an alteration I may make in Zuleika’s speech, in second Canto (the only one of hers in that Canto). It is now thus:
“And curse, if I could curse, the day. |
“And mourn—I dare not curse—the day That saw my solitary birth, &c. &c. |
“In the last MS. lines sent, instead of ‘living heart,’ convert to ‘quivering heart.’ It is in line 9th of the MS. passage.
