22.  PUNCTUAL VARIATIONS.  The punctuation of our text is that of the editio princeps (1820), except in the places indicated in the following list, which records in each instance the pointing of 1820:—­

Act 1.—­empire. 15; O, 17; God 144; words 185; internally. 299; O, 302; gnash 345; wail 345; Sufferer 352; agony. 491; Between 712; cloud 712; vale 826.

Act 2: 
Scene 1.—­air 129; by 153; fire, 155. 
Scene 2.—­noonday, 25; hurrying 60. 
Scene 3.—­mist. 50. 
Scene 4.—­sun, 4; Ungazed 5; on 103; ay 106; secrets. 115. 
Scene 5.—­brightness 67.

Act 3: 
Scene 3.—­apparitions, 49; beauty, 51; phantoms, (omit parentheses) 52;
          reality, 53; wind 98. 
Scene 4.—­toil 109; fire. 110; feel; 114; borne; 115; said 124;
          priests, 173; man, 180; hate, 188; Passionless; 198.

Act 4.—­dreams, 66; be. 165; light. 168; air, 187; dreams, 209; woods 211;
        thunder-storm, 215; lie 298; bones 342; blending. 343; mire. 349;
        pass, 371; kind 385; move. 387.

THE CENCI.

1.  The deed he saw could not have rated higher Than his most worthless life:—­ (1 1 24, 25.) Than is Mrs. Shelley’s emendation (1839) for That, the word in the editio princeps (1819) printed in Italy, and in the (standard) edition of 1821.  The sense is:  ’The crime he witnessed could not have proved costlier to redeem than his murder has proved to me.’

2.  And but that there yet remains a deed to act, etc. (1 1 100.) Read:  And but :  that there yet :  remains :  etc.

3. 1 1 111-113.  The earliest draft of these lines appears as a tentative fragment in the Bodleian manuscript of “Prince Athanase” (vid. supr.).  In the Bodleian manuscript of “Prometheus Unbound” they reappear (after 2 4 27) in a modified shape, as follows:—­ Or looks which tell that while the lips are calm And the eyes cold, the spirit weeps within Tears like the sanguine sweat of agony; Here again, however, the passage is cancelled, once more to reappear in its final and most effective shape in “The Cenci” (Locock).

4.  And thus I love you still, but holily, Even as a sister or a spirit might; (1 2 24, 25.) For this, the reading of the standard edition (1821), the editio princeps has, And yet I love, etc., which Rossetti retains.  If yet be right, the line should be punctuated:—­ And yet I love you still,—­but holily, Even as a sister or a spirit might;

5. 
What, if we,
The desolate and the dead, were his own flesh,
His children and his wife, etc. (1 3 103-105.)
For were (104) Rossetti cj. are or wear.  Wear is a plausible emendation,
but the text as it stands is defensible.

6.  But that no power can fill with vital oil That broken lamp of flesh. (3 2 17, 18.) The standard text (1821) has a Shelleyan comma after oil (17), which Forman retains.  Woodberry adds a dash to the comma, thus making that (17) a demonstrative pronoun indicating broken lamp of flesh.  The pointing of our text is that of editions 1819, 1839, But that (17) is to be taken as a prepositional conjunction linking the dependent clause, no power...lamp of flesh, to the principal sentence, So wastes...kindled mine (15, 16).