[121] A variant of a line in Hawker’s poem, “A Legend of the Hive.”
[122] The Oxford crone speaks with a Cornish accent, and some think that she hailed from Stratton.
[123] Hawker came in contact, however, with some of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, as we learn from a letter where he says: “How I recollect their faces and words—Newman, Pusey, Ward, Marriott; they used to be all in the common-room every evening, discussing, talking, reading.” Hawker went up to Oxford in 1822, and won the Newdigate in 1827, when Newman was a Tutor of Oriel and Keble was publishing “The Christian Year.”
[124] One of the kind so often used by Wesley for his open-air sermons in Cornwall. See p. [160].
[125] Compare Hawker’s poem,“Trebarrow,” and his footnote thereto.
[126] From the description of Carradon in “The Quest of the Sangraal.”
“Kings of the main their leaders brave,
Their barks the dragons of the wave.”
Lay of the Last Minstrel.
[128] Compare Hawker’s well-known ballad, “The Silent Tower of Bottreaux.”