Chapter XXIX: Preface: Prefixed to the three issues of 1816, and to 1828, 1829, 1834

_Christabel_--Preface. 2 The year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven 1816, 1828, 1829.

[3, 4] The year one thousand eight hundred 1816, 1828, 1829.

[4] _after_ 'Cumberland'] Since the latter date, my poetic powers have been, till very lately, in a state of suspended animation. But as, in my very first conception of the tale, I had the whole present to my mind, with the wholeness, no less than the liveliness of a vision; I trust that I shall be able to embody in verse the three parts yet to come, in the course of the present year. _It is probable_, &c. 1816, 1828, 1829: om. 1834.

[23] doggrel 1816, 1828, 1829.