Gliding through haunted scenes, enraptured and afraid. }

A loftier shelf with real books was graced,

Bound, or part bound, and ranged in comely taste:

Books of high mark, the mind’s more solid food,

Which some might think the owner understood;

But Fluxions, Sections, Algebraic lore,

Our Peter left for others to explore, 110

And, quickly turning to a favourite kind,

Found what rejoiced him at his heart to find.

Sir Walter wrote not then, or He by whom