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| − | Albion thy fear has made me tremble; thy terrors have surrounded me | + | Jerusalem! Jerusalem! deluding shadow of Albion! |
| − | Thy Sons have naild me on the Gates piercing my hands & feet:
| + | Daughter of my phantasy! unlawful pleasure! Albions curse! |
| − | Till Skofields Nimrod the mighty Huntsman Jehovah came,
| + | I came here with intention to annihilate thee! But |
| − | With Cush his Son & took me down. He in a golden Ark,
| + | My soul is melted away, inwoven within the Veil |
| − | {{nr|5}} Bears me before his Armies tho my shadow hovers here | + | {{nr|5}} Hast thou again knitted the Veil of Vala, which I for thee |
| − | The flesh of multitudes fed & nouris[h]d me in my childhood
| + | Pitying rent in ancient times. I see it whole and more |
| − | My morn & evening food were prepard in Battles of Men
| + | Perfect, and shining with beauty! But thou! O wretched Father!<ref>23:7 But thou! O wretched Father!] Jerusalem now speaks.</ref> |
| − | Great is the cry of the Hounds of Nimrod along the Valley
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| − | Of Vision, they scent the odor of War in the Valley of Vision.
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| − | {{nr|10}} All Love is lost! terror succeeds & Hatred instead of Love<ref>22:10 Hatred] mended from Ratred</ref>
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| − | And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty
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| − | Once thou wast to me the loveliest Son of heaven; but now
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| − | Where shall I hide from thy dread countenance & searching eyes
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| − | I have looked into the secret Soul of him I loved
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| − | {{nr|15}} And in the dark recesses found Sin & can never return.
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| − | Albion again utterd his voice beneath the silent Moon
| + | Jerusalem reply'd, like a voice heard from a sepulcher: |
| | + | Father! once piteous! Is Pity. a Sin? Embalm'd in Vala's bosom |
| | + | {{nr|10}} In an Eternal Death for. Albions sake, our best beloved. |
| | + | Thou art my Father & my Brother: Why hast thou hidden me, |
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| − | I brought Love into light of day to pride in chaste beauty
| + | Remote from the divine Vision: my Lord and Saviour. |
| − | I brought Love into light & fancied Innocence is no more
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| − | Then spoke Jerusalem O Albion! my Father Albion
| + | Trembling stood Albion at her words in jealous dark despair: |
| − | {{nr|20}} Why wilt thou number every little fibre of my Soul
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| − | Spreading them out before the Sun like stalks of flax to dry?
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| − | The Infant Joy is beautiful, but its anatomy
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| − | Horrible ghast & deadly! nought shalt thou find in it
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| − | But dark despair & everlasting brooding melancholy!
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| − | {{nr|25}} Then Albion turnd his face toward Jerusalem & spoke | + | He felt that Love and Pity are the same; a soft repose! |
| | + | {{nr|15}} Inward complacency of Soul: a Self-annihilation! |
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| − | Hide thou Jerusalem in impalpable voidness, not to be
| + | I have erred! I am ashamed! and will never return more: |
| − | Touchd by the hand nor seen with the eye: O Jerusalem
| + | I have taught my children sacrifices of cruelty: what shall I answer? |
| − | Would thou wert not & that thy place might never be found
| + | I will hide it from Eternals! I will give myself for my Children! |
| − | But come O Vala with knife & cup: drain my blood
| + | Which way soever I turn, I behold Humanity and Pity! |
| − | {{nr|30}} To the last drop! then hide me in thy Scarlet Tabernacle
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| − | For I see Luvah whom I slew. I behold him in my Spectre
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| − | As I behold Jerusalem in thee O Vala dark and cold
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| − | Jerusalem then stretchd her hand toward the Moon & spoke
| + | {{nr|20}} He recoil'd: he rush'd outwards; he bore the Veil whole away |
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| + | His fires redound from his Dragon Altars in Errors returning. |
| − | Why should Punishment Weave the Veil with Iron Wheels of War
| + | He drew the Veil of Moral Virtue, woven for Cruel Laws, |
| − | {{nr|35}} When Forgiveness might it Weave with Wings of Cherubim | + | And cast it into the Atlantic Deep, to catch the Souls of the Dead. |
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| + | He stood between the Palm tree & the Oak of weeping |
| − | Loud groand Albion from mountain to mountain & replied
| + | {{nr|25}} Which stand upon the edge of Beulah; and there Albion sunk |
| | + | Down in sick pallid languor! These were his last words, relapsing! |
| | + | Hoarse from his rocks, from caverns of Derbyshire & Wales |
| | + | And Scotland, utter'd from the Circumference into Eternity. |
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| | + | Blasphemous Sons of Feminine delusion! God in the dreary Void |
| | + | {{nr|30}} Dwells from Eternity, wide separated from the Human Soul |
| | + | But thou deluding Image by whom imbu'd the Veil I rent |
| | + | Lo here is Valas Veil whole, for a Law, a Terror & a Curse! |
| | + | And therefore God takes vengeance on me: from my clay-cold bosom |
| | + | My children wander trembling victims of his Moral justice. |
| | + | {{nr|35}} His snows fall on me and cover me, while in the Veil I fold |
| | + | My dying limbs. Therefore O Manhood, if thou art aught |
| | + | But a meer Phantasy, hear dying Albions Curse! |
| | + | May God who dwells in this dark Ulro & voidness, vengeance take, |
| | + | And draw thee down into this Abyss of sorrow and torture, |
| | + | {{nr|40}} Like me thy Victim. O that Death & Annihilation were the same! |
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| − | [[File:Blake Jerusalem Plate 22 copy E top detail.jpg|600px|thumb|center|<center>Two separate figures that have been explained differently: as Spectre & Emanation, as Vala & Albion, as Vala & Jerusalem and as Leda & the swan.</center>]]
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| − | [[File:Blake Jerusalem Plate 22 copy E bottom detail.jpg|600px|thumb|center|<center>The wheels and angels, illustrating lines 34-35.</center>]]
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| − | 23:7 But thou! O wretched Father!] Jerusalem now speaks.
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| − | 24:58 Dead . . . Alive] mended from dead . . . alive
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| − | 24:60 Followed by a line deleted almost without trace; compare 47:1.
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| − | Plate 26, engraved in white line, portrays “HAND” in flames and with nails in his extended palms, turned toward “JERUSALEM”, who lifts her hands in amazement. The rhymed lines are incised in outline alongside the figures.
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| − | 27:15 Willans] mended (perhaps from “Williams”)
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| − | Plate 28 exists in an early state (in a proof page in the Morgan Library); extensive changes were made in the picture, but not the text, before final printing. Female and male figures embracing in the center of a large flower were re-engraved from a position in which they could be assumed to be copulating to one in which they could not. Perhaps illustrating Jerusalem-Vala's attempt “to melt his [Albion's] Giant beauty, on the moony river” (19:47). (In 1977 the Morgan acquired another working proof, intermediate between the early and the final states.)
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| − | Plates 29-46 are found in two arrangements. The sequence followed here is that of copies A C F; numbers within brackets indicate the sequence of copies D E.
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| − | 29:47 involve] Possibly a mistake for “involves”; yet the construction “behold the cloud involve me” would not be unBlakean.
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| − | 31:18 States . . . Systems] These two words, in an unevenly deleted line, are somewhat conjectural.
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| − | 32:34 Conjectural restoration of deeply gouged deletion.
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| − | 33:1 Line added (by engraving) after the etching of the plate.
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| − | 33:10 blue] mended from pale (in all copies, but restored to “pale” in A; a proof exists of the unmended plate)
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| − | 35:6 Line crowded into a paragraph break, before etching, but indented to go with second paragraph.
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| − | 35:10 Line crowded into paragraph break, before etching.
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| − | 37:32-35 (reverse writing, on scroll):
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| − | Each Man is in his Spectre's power
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| − | Untill the arrival of that hour,
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| − | When his Humanity awake
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| − | And cast his Spectre into the Lake
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| − | [4] [This world]<Each Man> is in
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| − | [3] Untill the arrival of that hour
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| − | [1] [Untill]<When> [the]<his> Humanity awake
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| − | [2] And cast [the]<his own> Spectre into the Lake
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| − | And there to Eternity aspire
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| − | The selfhood in a flame of fire
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| − | Till then the Lamb of God
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| − | 40:40 Line lacking in proof (Morgan Library); added to plate by engraving.
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| − | 42:47 friend] sic, probably a parody of “aborred fiend”, though possibly a scribal error
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| − | 43:28 rocks] etched locks, but see line 2; emendation suggested by Joanne Witke
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| − | 43:83 trembling] mended from Albion slept (though “slept” is conjectural)
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| − | 47:1 Blake probably did not delete this line because of its redundancy with the plate's concluding line (for a similar refrain enclosing a plate, see America 9) but to accommodate some rearrangement of plates subsequently abandoned.
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| − | 49:35 Void] ground rdg on plate, error in copying Milton 5:22
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| − | Plate 51, a full-page illustration, was inscribed “Vala Hyle Skofield” when issued as a separate print. Monogram WB in lower left corner (for use with separate print) is visible in copy A and posthumous copies.
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| − | 1 Charlemaine] Constantine 1st ms rdg del
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| − | 5-8 A variant stanza was written beside this in the ms:
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| − | Gibbon plied his lash of steel
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| − | Charlemaine & his barons bold
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| − | Stood by & mockd in iron & gold
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| − | The Wheel of Voltaire whirld on high
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| − | Gibbon aloud his lash does ply
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| − | Charlemaine & his Clouds of War
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| − | (The final line 7 was composed after these variant stanzas were rejected.)
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| − | 7 The Schools . . . rolld] Charlemaine & his barons bold 1st ms rdg del
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| − | 9 Thou . . . afar] Seditious Monk said Charlemaine 1st ms rdg del
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| − | 10 In vain . . . War] The Glory of War thou condemnst in vain 1st ms rdg del
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| − | 11 your . . . you] thy . . . thou ms rdg
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| − | 17-20 When Satan . . . mercys Lord] ms stanza“5” (variant: Mercys), replacing:
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| − | Untill the Tyrant himself relent
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| − | The Tyrant who first the black bow bent
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| − | Slaughter shall heap the bloody plain
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| − | Resistance & war is the Tyrants gain
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| − | 21 Titus! Constantine!] O Charlemaine O 1 st ms rdg del
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| − | 23 Grecian Mocks] mocks & scorn 1st ms rdg del
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| − | 25 For a Tear] For the tear 1st ms rdg del; A tear 2nd ms rdg
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| − | 25-28 Variant ms stanza, abandoned but not deleted:
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| − | But The Tear of Love & forgiveness sweet
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| − | And submission to death beneath his feet
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| − | The Tear shall melt the sword of steel
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| − | And every wound it has made shall heal
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| − | The following stanza, numbered “8”, was begun, alongside stanza 7:
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| − | a Grecian Scoff is a wracking wheel
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| − | [The] Roman pride is a sword of steel
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| − | [Vict] Glory & Victory a [?Ron][<plaited>] [?Trojan] phallic Whip
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| − | 27 of a Martyrs] for anothers 1st ms rdg del; of the Martyrs 2 nd ms rdg
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| − | 55:20 Conclave] etched Concave, clearly wrong for the context
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| − | 56:37 earth-Worm] mended by pen to earth-Worms in copy F, perhaps not by Blake
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| − | 58:3 Street] possibly a mistake for Streets
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| − | 60:55 Not: but] Keynes emends to Nought but (yet compare 93:20 and 96:16; perhaps the intended opposition is “Art thou alive! or art thou Not:”)
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| − | 69:1 combined] mended in copper to conjoined (restored in the Mellon copy by pen)
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| − | 72:53 Mirror writing: Women the comforters of Men become the Tormenters & Punishers
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| − | 73:37,Deletion covered by vines in most copies; legible in posthumous copies, under magnification.
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| − | 73:43 Deletion covered by vines in most copies; legible in posthumous copies, under magnification
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| − | 77:1-4 I give you . . . wall] Four lines from Blake's Notebook (p 46 reversed)
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| − | 77 The Real [Selfhood] . . . Man] incised in the bottom corners of the plate, partly legible in copy F and in posthumous copies. (The fourth segment is G. E. Bentley's deciphering.) Blake first deleted “hood” and later the whole passage.
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| − | In Heaven the only Art of Living
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| − | Especially to the Female
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| − | But if you on Earth Forgive
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| − | You shall not find where to Live
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| − | 81:15-16 Since these two lines appear below the illustration, they may be considered as its caption; but they also serve as part of the text. (Keynes prints them as such but in a note says they are not part of teh text.)
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| − | 82:43 his hands . . . & his feet] written his hands . . . & his hands
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| − | 83:1 Corruptibility] etched Corrupability mended in copy E
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| − | 83:30 Affection] mended from affection
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| − | 83:87 Awake] Whether given an exclamation point or not, this word seems to hang in midair. Plate 84 (different in technique, lettering, content) obviously did not originally follow. Part of the Daughters' song of building appears to be lost.
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| − | 85:11 Myriads] mended from myriads
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| − | 89:2 endure] The plural subject of this verb must be the “double” nay “Twelvefold” Hermaphroditic form.
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| − | 89:26 flocks] Rocks in previous transcription, corrected by Bentley
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| − | 90:58 And] mended from and
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| − | 90:67 thunder's] I have inserted the apostrophe called for by the syntax and context; it is the thunder of Los that utters Plate 91.
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| − | 91:1 Preceded by a deleted line which I can partly decipher as “Forgiveness of Enemies ?can [ ] only [ ] God [ ]”
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| − | 94:27 Line probably added during a rewriting of the page. (Examination of Plate 95 reveals that the text of Plate 94 was first etched in the top half of 95 and was probably identical to the re-etched version except for this line.)
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| − | 98:11 Sexual Threefold] mended from Sexual Twofold (The plate bears other signs of hasty writing.)
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| − | 98:34 regenerations] mended from regenations
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| − | 98:45 the Covenant of] mended from thy Covenant (thy Covenant restored in the Morgan copy by pen)
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| − | 98:48 Sacrifices] The terminal “s” almost hidden by the decorative border—but not a true deletion.
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