It may be well to state (as these have often been taken for translations), that they are only pseudo-Alexandrian.
[A Footpath Morality]: P. [121].
A sort of floral log-book of a walk from Oxford to Appleton in Berkshire, May, 1908.
Oxford
[Ad Antiquarium]: P. [146].
This is Wood's disinterested helper, John Aubrey, F.R.S., 1626-1697. Never was a truer lover of what he calls "that most ingeniose Place!"
[Martyrs’ Memorial]: P. [147].
The only monument in the streets of Oxford was put up by the local Low Church party in 1841, not really so much to commemorate Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, all Cambridge men, as to register a protest against Hurrell Froude (then dead), Newman, and Keble, who all showed frank disrespect to the heroes of the Reformation in England. The reference in the sestet is of course to Cardinal Newman, and was written barely a month before his rather sudden death on August 11, 1890.