Beaumont's line in The Battle of Bosworth Field is—
The earth assists thee with the cry of blood.Ed.
[C] "No three words could better describe the gulfs on the side of Saddleback." (H. D. Rawnsley.)
[D] "Rugged patches of Hawkweed, golden rod, and white water ranunculus in the pools." (H. D. Rawnsley.)
[E] The eagle nested in Borrowdale as late as 1785.—Ed.
[F] It is imagined by the people of the Country that there are two immortal Fish, Inhabitants of this Tarn, which lies in the mountains not far from Threlkeld. Blencathara, mentioned before, is the old and proper name of the mountain vulgarly called Saddle-back.—W. W. 1807.
[G] The martial character of the Cliffords is well known to the readers of English History; but it may not be improper here to say, by way of comment on these lines and what follows, that, besides several others who perished in the same manner, the four immediate Progenitors of the person in whose hearing this is supposed to be spoken, all died in the Field.—W. W. 1807.
Compare The Borderers, act III. l. 56 (vol. i. p. 173)—
They say, Lord Clifford is a savage man.Ed.
[H] He was killed at Ferrybridge the day before the battle of Towton.—Ed.