Plate 36[32]
. . . .
And the Four Zoa's who are the Four Eternal Senses of Man
Became Four Elements separating from the limbs of Albion
These are their names in the Vegetative Generation [33]
<[?West][ ] dividing Generation [ ]>
And Accident & Chance were found hidden in Length Bredth
&
Highth
The Fitzwilliam copy is clearest in the first part of line 34, the
Morgan copy in the latter part, the Mellon copy perhaps all through (and
not vine-covered or washed); yet deletion by scratching was too thorough
for a complete or confident restoration. Except for the final word, I can
propose a conjectural reading which seems to fit the few fragments of
letters discernible and is at least not contradicted by any fragments or by
the context: "West Weigh[ing] East & North dividing Generation South
[ ]g". The colon which Keynes (p. 663) supplies at the end of line 33 may
be misleading.
"These" may refer only backward to "Senses" and "Elements" in the
preceding lines and not to anything in the deleted line. Or is Blake
intentionally removing a key to his symbols?
"Zoa's", the first word in line 44, is described as "indistinct in
Blake's autotype" by Sloss and Wallis (1, 511); yet I find it clear in all
copies examined. These editors seem occasionally to have misread their
own notes and to report difficulties where none exist.
