"We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief, with about twenty pounds a-piece in our pockets."
W. W. (Autobiographical Memoranda.)—Ed.
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[Footnote h:] July 14, 1790.
"We crossed from Dover and landed at Calais, on the eve of the day when the King was to swear fidelity to the new constitution: an event which was solemnised with due pomp at Calais."
W. W. (Autobiographical Memoranda.) See also the [volume 2 link: sonnet] "dedicated to National Independence and Liberty," vol. ii. p. 332. beginning,
'Jones! as from Calais southward you and I,
and compare the human nature seeming born again'
of The Prelude, [book vi.] l. 341, with "the pomp of a too-credulous day" and the "homeless sound of joy" of the sonnet.—Ed.
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[Footnote i:] They went by Ardres, Péronne, Soissons, Château Thierry, Sézanne, Bar le Duc, Châtillon-sur-Seine, Nuits, to Châlons-sur-Saône; and thence sailed down to Lyons. See Fenwick note to Stray Pleasures (vol. iv.)
"The town of Châlons, where my friend Jones and I halted a day, when we crossed France, so far on foot. There we embarqued, and floated down to Lyons."
Ed.
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[Footnote k:] Compare Descriptive Sketches, vol. i. p 40:
'Or where her pathways straggle as they please
By lonely farms and secret villages.'