The thirty-sixth block in the series (numbers corresponding to a list copied from one written by William Morris). Printed with the seventh block on a single sheet: P.12175-R(b). The blocks were cut c.1868-8, but these proofs were probably printed in the 1880s. Sheet has two "Primrose" watermarks. Around fifty of the designs for Morris's poems, "The Earthly Paradise", were cut as woodblocks by William Morris, George Campfield, Elizabeth Burden and George Wardle, though Morris later abandoned the project. According to a list copied from one made by William Morris, which lists the titles and block cutter's names, the set owned by the Fitzwilliam is incomplete. J.R. Holliday also owned a bound volume containing 86 studies for illustrations to 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' and a collection of tracings of the designs, which he bequeathed to Birmingham Art Gallery.
"Slave, here I leave thee, but before the night These mingled seeds thy hands shall set aright, All laid in heaps, each after its own kind And if in any heap I chance to find An alien seed - thou knowest since yesterday How disobedient slaves the forfeit pay." William Morris - The Earthly Paradise Quoted by G Uerscheln & M Kalusok p 220 "Listen; thy daughter we would have thee leave Upon the fated mountain this same eve; And thither must she go right well arrayed In marriage raiment, loose hair as a maid, And saffron veil, and with her shall there go Fair maidens bearing torches, two and two; And minstrels, in such raiment as is meet The god-ordained fearful spouse to greet." William Morris - The Earthly Paradise Quoted by G Uerscheln & M Kalusok p 166