And full of dealings with the world.
In The Day Dream, from which we have already quoted, the following lines will suggest to the reader’s mind the story of Rip Van Winkle, or Sleepy Hollow:
And last of all the king awoke,
And in his chair himself uprear’d,
And yawn’d, and rubb’d his face, and spoke,
“By holy rood, a royal beard!
How say you? we have slept, my lords.
My beard has grown into my lap.”
The barons swore, with many words,
’Twas but an after-dinner’s nap.