The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8)

by William Wordsworth

The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description

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[Footnote B:]

Wordsworth went to Racedown in 1795, when he was twenty-five years of age; and was at Alfoxden in his twenty-eighth year.—Ed.

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[Footnote C:]

Compare Ovid's

Metamorphoses

I. 84: