[368] Compare, in An Evening Walk, l. 378—

Or yell, in the deep woods, of lonely hound.

Ed.

[369] Compare Wordsworth’s numerous references to the Cumbrian and Westmoreland “Statesmen,” in his Prose Works, and elsewhere.—Ed.

[370] Compare Peter Bell.—Ed.

[371] Compare The Excursion, book iv. ll. 1175-1187.—Ed.

[372] Wordsworth says elsewhere that

Solitude is blithe Society.

Ed.

[373] John Wordsworth.—Ed.