ABSTRACT

William Blake used part of lines 35-6 ofDo1Ule's Metempsychosis as the legend for a sketch in his notebook. The sketch shows a patriarchal figure squatting with legs crossed under him and his wrists manacled; very faintly underneath, and picked out by a border from a mass of surrounding commentary, is written

Whose changeless brow Neer smiles nor frowns

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