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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.
"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.
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