“At Cambo, on a fatal day,
I chanc’d to see and view
This Celia’s face, more fresh than May,
When every blossom’s new;
Like patient Grissel, at her wheel,
Acting the housewife’s part,
My spirits in my veins did reel,
And love danc’d in my heart.”
As also from the History of Northumberland, (1811) Vol. II, page 221.
“Cambo was the favourite residence of the ingenious and eccentric Thomas Whittle, whose comic productions often beguile the long winter evenings of our rustic Northumbrians. His parents and the place of his birth are unknown. It is believed that he was the natural son of a gentleman of fortune, and that he was called Whittle from the place of his nativity, which some say was in the parish of Shilbottle, and others in the parish of Ovingham.