THE GUILDHALL, EXETER.
"We thought the old Guildhall even more interesting than the Cathedral."
Matthew was a miller who lived in the neighbourhood, and was so regular in his goings out and comings in that the neighbours set their time by him; but there was no doubt that the figure represented "Old King Hal," and it seemed strange that the same king should have been associated by one of the poets with a miller who had a mill in our county town of Chester:
There dwelt a Miller hale and bold
Beside the river Dee,
He work'd and sang from morn till night,
No lark more blithe than he;
And this the burden of his song
For ever used to be—
"I envy nobody, no, not I,
And nobody envies me!"