In the dullest of clerical drones:

And when next I regained recollection

We were rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.


WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED.

(1802-1839.)

[LXIII.] THE RED FISHERMAN; OR, THE DEVIL'S DECOY.

Published in Knight's Annual.

The Abbot arose, and closed his book,

And donned his sandal shoon,