Potter (foot-note).
'A Potter, Sir, he was by trade' (Pt. I. l. 11).
In the dialect of the North, a hawker of earthenware is thus designated.
VII. MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
PART I.
183. *Commencement of writing of Sonnets.
In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon in 1801, my sister read to me the sonnets of Milton. I had long been well acquainted with them, but I was particularly struck on that occasion with the dignified simplicity and majestic harmony that runs through most of them—in character so totally different from the Italian, and still more so from Shakespeare's fine sonnets. I took fire, if I may be allowed to say so, and produced three sonnets the same afternoon—the first I ever wrote, except an irregular one at school. Of these three, the only one I distinctly remember is 'I grieved for Buonaparte,' &c. One was never written down; the third, which was I believe preserved, I cannot particularise.
184. Admonition.
'Well mays't thou halt,' &c. [II.]