Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2 by William Wordsworth
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page 98 of 99 (98%)
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This line is from The Battle of Bosworth Field by Sir John Beaumont
(Brother to the Dramatist), whose poems are written with so much spirit, elegance, and harmony, that it is supposed, as the Book is very scarce, a new edition of it would be acceptable to Scholars and Men of taste, and, accordingly, it is in contemplation to give one. NOTE VII. PAGE 135 (309); line 15.-- "And both the undying Fish that swim Through Bowscale-Tarn," &c. It is imagined by the people of the Country that there are two immortal Fish, Inhabitants of this Tarn, which lies in the mountains not far from Threlkeld.--Blencathara, mentioned before, is the old and proper name of the mountain vulgarly called Saddle-back. NOTE VIII. PAGE 136 (310); lines 17 and 18.-- "Armour rusting in his Halls On the blood of Clifford calls." The martial character of the Cliffords is well known to the readers of English History; but it may not be improper here to say, by way of comment on these lines and what follows, that, besides several |
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