as ripe] as they MS.

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High on the hedge-elms in the lane MS. erased.

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spikes] strikes Sibylline Leaves, 1817. [Note. It is possible that 'strikes'—a Somersetshire word—(compare 'strikes of flax') was deliberately substituted for 'spikes'. It does not appear in the long list of Errata prefixed to Sibylline Leaves. Wagons passing through narrow lanes leave on the hedge-rows not single 'spikes', but little swathes or fillets of corn.]

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over boughed] over-bough'd MS.

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they] he MS. The Friend, 1809.

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