[HW] As is notably the case with the beck in Tongue Ghyll.—ED.
[HX] This "long stone seat" (now a thing of the past) was fixed to the wall on the left of the south entrance-gate into the churchyard; and not—as might have been supposed—on the opposite wall, which reaches from the entrance-gate to the poet's grave. The old wall was rebuilt by the late rector, but the seat was not replaced.—ED.
[HY] "The story was told to Mrs. Wordsworth and my sister, by the sister of this unhappy young woman. Every particular was exactly as I have related.... She lived at Hawkshead."—I. F. See the whole of the Fenwick note, also Charles Lamb's remarks, in his letter of Aug. 14, 1814.—ED.
[HZ] Compare the Hon. Justice Coleridge's "Reminiscences" of a walk and conversation with Wordsworth (October 1836) in Easdale, where—at the pool, which many have identified as "Emma's Dell"—he said, "I have often thought what a solemn thing it would be could we have brought to our mind at once all the scenes of distress and misery which any spot, however beautiful and calm before us, has been witness to since the beginning." (See vol. ii. p. 156.)—ED.
[IA] Compare Hamlet, act III. scene i. l. 72—
ED.
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay.
[IB] This custom still survives in the country; sons working as servants on ground belonging to their parents, and receiving payment for it.—ED.