Better to breathe upon this aëry height
Than pass . . .
FOOTNOTES:
[EV] See Horace, Carmina III. 13, Ad fontem Blandusiæ:
. . . unde loquaces
Lymphæ desiliunt tuæ,
and compare Epistolae I. 16, 9.—Ed.
[EW] Mr. Herbert Rix—late Assistant Secretary to the Royal Society—has made a very minute and careful study of the Duddon Valley—repeated during many seasons—with the object of localising the allusions in the sonnets. I am indebted to him for the following notes, which bear his name.
The Rev. Canon Rawnsley has also studied the Duddon Valley with great care, and I place his comments beside those of Mr. Rix, both when they are supplementary, and when they differ from the conclusions come to by Mr. Rix.—Ed.