Runover mark (MS I)—See Editorial and Encoding Rationale and Methodology: Element, Attribute, and Value Usage—Justification, Runover, and Word Division.

Line 9—Collingwoodʼs decision to isolate the word so on its own line here does not appear in keeping with Ruskinʼs lineation of the original witness of the poem fair‐copied in MS I, in which so appears to have been indented as runover belonging to the line “was better than our mouses so” (“his sight” in the line “of her good wall for then his sight” and “dog just then” in the line “when frightened was the dog just then” are similarly indented in the MS I witness and, interestingly, were apparently interpreted by Collingwood as runover in this printed edition of the poem). Further evidence that the author intended so to belong to the line “was better than our mouses so” may be found in the fact that Collingwoodʼs decision to isolate the word disrupts the original aabbccddeeffgg coupleted rhyme scheme of the MS I witness—imposing a less elegant aabbccddeffgghh rhyme scheme instead.