A. E. B.

Leeds.

P.S.--I may add that, with respect to these words "happy low lie down,"

from my habit of looking for solutions of difficulties in parallels and

antitheses, I have arrived at a different conclusion from any that has yet

been suggested. Finding "uneasy" used _adverbially_ in the last line, I see

no reason why "happy" should not also be taken _adverbially_ in the

preceding line: we should then have the same verb, "lie" and "lies,"

repeated antithetically in the same mood and tense.

The article _the_ before "low" has probably been omitted in the press, and

may be either actually restored or elliptically understood:

"Then _happy_ [the] low lie down;

_Uneasy_ lies the head that wears a crown."

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