"His train but deemed the favourite page
Was left behind to spare his age,
Or other if they deemed, none dared
To mutter what he thought or heard."
Marmion, Canto III. stanza xv. lines 19-22.]
[272] [Compare—
"Sweetly shining on the eye,
A rivulet gliding smoothly by;
Which shows with what an easy tide
The moments of the happy glide."
Dyer's Country Walk (Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green, 1858, p. 221).]
[273] {331} ["He used, at first, though offered a bed at Annesley, to return every night to Newstead, to sleep; alleging as a reason that he was afraid of the family pictures of the Chaworths."—Life, p. 27.]
[jk] ——knelt in painted prayer.—[MS.]
[jl] His aspect all that best becomes the grave.—[MS.]
[jm] {333} ——along the gallery crawl.—[MS.]
[jn] {334}