Also Sir Walter Scott's Woodstock, and The Talisman.—ED.
[II] Compare Gay, The Shepherds Week, the Sixth Pastoral, line 91—
Then sad he sung "The children in the wood."
Ah! barb'rous Uncle, stain'd with infant blood!
[IJ] Compare The Prelude, book vii. ll. 110-115 (see vol. iii. p. 251).—ED.
[IK] The chapel of Wytheburn, at the northern or Cumberland side of Dunmail Raise.—ED.
[IL] This house, in which Mr. Sympson lived, and which—though no longer the parsonage—still belongs to Wytheburn church, is easily identified. The "blue slabs of mountain-stone," common to all old houses in the vale, remain just as they were, when the old pastor lived, and Wordsworth was his frequent guest. The windows, too, "by shutters weather-fended," are described with minute fidelity.—ED.
[IM] Mrs. Sympson was twelve years her husband's junior, and she pre-deceased him by a year and a half.
Compare—
"She, far behind him in the race of years" (l. 226).