NOTES. P. 2. Where, bosomed deep, the shy Winander peep Mid clustering isles, and holly-sprinkled steeps.] › lines are only applicable to the middle part of that lake. P. 2. Woodcocks. In the beginning of winter, these mountains are frequented by woods, which in dark nights retire into the woods. P. 4. Intake.]—A local word, which means a mountain-inclosure. ¡ P. 4. The eye reposes on a secret bridge Half gray, half shagged with ivy to its ridge.] description refers to the lower waterfall in the grounds of Rydal. ) P. 5. “Green rings.”—“ Vivid rings of green."-GREENWOOD's Poem on Shooting. 3) P. 5. Sweetly ferocious.]—"Dolcemente feroce."-TAsso.-In this description of the k, I remembered a spirited one of the same animal in “L'Agriculture, ou Les Géorgiques ançaises," of M. Rossuet. 7) P. 16. Murmuring here a later ditty.]—The ode of Collins on the death of Thomson. 8) P. 17. Memnon's lyre.]-The lyre of Memnon is reported to have emitted melancholy or eerful tones, as it was touched by the sun's evening or morning rays. (9) P. 18. The Cross. ]-The apparently inaccessible crosses on the rocks of Chartreuse. (10) P. 18. Life and Death.J-Rivers at the Chartreuse, of which Vallombre is a valley. (11) P. 21. By cells whose image, trembling as he prays, he Catholic religion prevails here; these cells are, as is well known, very common in the atholic countries, planted, like the Roman tombs, along the roadside. (12) P. 21. And crosses reared to Death on every side.]-Crosses commemorative of the eaths of travellers by the fall of snow and other accidents, very common along this dreadful Dad. (13) P. 21. On the low brown wood huts.]—In the more retired Swiss valleys the houses are uilt of wood. (14) P. 24. Nought but the herds that, pasturing, upward creep, This picture is from the middle region of the Alps. (15) P. 26. Sugh.]-A Scotch word, expressive of the sound of the wind through the trees. (16) P. 28. Ensiedlen's wretched fane.]-This shrine is resorted to, from a hope of relief, by multitudes, from every corner of the Catholic world, labouring under mental or bodily afflictions. (17) P. 54. By persons resident in the country and attached to rural objects, many places will be found unnamed, or of unknown names, where little incidents will have occurred, or feelings been experienced, which will have given to such places a private and peculiar interest. From a wish to give some sort of record to such incidents, or renew the gratification of such feelings, names have been given to places by the author and some of his friends, and these Poems written in consequence, (3 The Thi (3 who (3 of L of o lonel way (36) (37) here d and in in mon is a sho Force is (39) P sinall pi meets wi P. 172 the subjec which John after the bal of York, wh Cumberland blemished th of himself in of the York 1 observe by the altogether so b but able to bea Memoirs of the be, this stigma to King Edward was then eightee Vincent in his b observed, that Lo a leading man an this time; and th entitled to mercy f one, the family of house of York: so th concealment. Henry the space of twentyCumberland, where t restored to his estate a "when called to Parli London or the Court; a of his castles, which had from Nicholson and Bur current in the village These waters, rolling from their mountain springs ot affected by the tides, a few miles above Tintern. Of eye and ear,-both what they half create.] a close resemblance to an admirable line of Young. The braes of Kirtle.]-The Kirtle is a river in the southern parts of Scotland, on 3 the events here related took place. 6. Stepping westward. When my fellow-traveller and I were walking by the side tterine, one fine evening after sunset, in our road to a Hut where, in the course r, we had been hospitably entertained some weeks before, we met, in one of the arts of these solitary regions, two well-dressed women, one of whom said to us, by eting, "What! you are stepping westward." 244. Fair hangs the apple frae the rock. -See Hamilton's ballads. 254. The old Cumberland Beggar.]-The class of Beggars to which the old man ribed belongs, will probably soon be extinct. It consisted of poor, and mostly old n persons, who confined themselves to a stated round in their neighbourhood, and in fixed days, on which, at different houses, they regularly received alms, sometimes , but mostly in provisions. . 364. Dungeon-Ghyll Force.]—Ghyll, in the dialect of Cumberland and Westmoreland, rt, and, for the most part, a steep narrow valley, with a stream rnnning through it. the word universally employed in these dialects for waterfall. ?. 368. Rob Roy's Grave.-His grave is near the head of Loch Ketterine, in one of those infold-like burial-grounds, of neglected and desolate appearance, which the traveller with in the Highlands of Scotland. ADDITIONAL NOTE. 172. Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle.]-Henry, Lord Clifford, &c. &c., who is abject of this poem, was the son of John, Lord Clifford, who was slain at Towton Field, 1 John, Lord Clifford, as is known to the reader of English history, was the person who, the battle of Wakefield, slew, in the pursuit, the young Earl of Rutland, son of the Duke ›rk, who had fallen in the battle, "in part of revenge" (say the authors of the History of berland and Westmoreland); "for the earl's father had slain his." A deed which worthily ished the author (saith Speed); but who, as he adds, "dare promise anything temperate imself in the heat of martial fury? chiefly when it was resolved not to leave any branch he York line standing; for so one maketh this lord to speak." This, no doubt, I would erve by the bye, was an action sufficiently in the vindictive spirit of the times, and yet not >gether so bad as represented; for the earl was no child, as some writers would have him, able to bear arms, being sixteen or seventeen years of age, as is evident from this (say the moirs of the Countess of Pembroke, who was laudably anxious to wipe away, as far as could this stigma from the illustrious name to which she was born), that he was the next child King Edward the Fourth, which his mother had by Richard, Duke of York, and that king is then eighteen years of age and for the small distance betwixt her children, see Austin incent in his book of nobility, p. 622, where he writes of them all. It may further be oserved, that Lord Clifford, who was then himself only twenty-five years of age, had been leading man and commander, two or three years together in the army of Lancaster, before his time; and therefore would be less likely to think that the Earl of Rutland might be ntitled to mercy from his youth. But, independent of this act, at best a cruel and savage one, the family of Clifford had done enough to draw upon them the vehement hatred of the house of York: so that after the battle of Towton there was no hope for them but in flight and concealment. Henry, the subject of the poem, was deprived of his estate and honours during the space of twenty-four years; all which time he lived as a shepherd in Yorkshire, or in Cumberland, where the estate of his father-in-law (Sir Lancelot Threlkeld) lay. He was restored to his estate and honours in the first year of Henry the Seventh. It is recorded that, "when called to Parliament, he behaved nobly and wisely; but otherwise came seldom to London or the Court; and rather delighted to live in the country, where he repaired several of his castles, which had gone to decay during the late troubles." Thus far is chiefly collected from Nicholson and Burn; and I can add, from my own knowledge, that there is a tradition current in the village of Threlkeld and its neighourhood, his principal retreat, that, in the to that birting contry. Th P. 173 Earth help'd him with ac It is imagined by the people of the o of this tarn, which lies in the mount before, is the old and proper name of the P. 177. Armour rating The martial character of the Cliffords is it may not be improper here to say, by wa besides several others who perished in the person in whose hearing this is supposed to R. CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, B |