[168] See previous footnote 167, p.[ 404].—M.
[169] The Rev. T. Randolph, D.D., editor of Miss Smith's Translation of Job, 1810.—M.
[170] The "mighty iron man" of that romance.—M.
[171] It is entitled "To the Spade of a Friend: composed while we were labouring together in his pleasure ground"; and it begins—
"Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands."
It was written in 1804.—M.
[172] Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816), though now remembered chiefly by her Scottish story, The Cottagers of Glenburnie, which appeared in 1808, was the author of many other writings.—M.
[173] And, in allusion to this circumstance, the house afterwards raised on a neighbouring spot, at this time suggested by Miss Smith, received the name of Tent Lodge.
[174] Addressing Wilkinson's spade in the poem mentioned at p. 413 ante, Wordsworth says—
"Rare master has it been thy lot to know;
Long hast thou served a man to reason true;
Whose life combines the best of high and low,
The labouring many and the resting few."—M.