[In pencil—Query: Sonnets relating to the expected Invasion, &c., p. 189, vol. iii. (1837) to p. 200; Ode, p. 201 to 203; Sonnets, part second, p. 204 to 215]. [After three blank pages.]
263. *War in Spain.
It would not be easy to conceive with what a depth of feeling I entered into the struggle carried on by the Spaniards for their deliverance from the usurped power of the French. Many times have I gone from Allan Bank, in Grasmere Vale, where we were then residing, to the top of the Raise-Gap, as it is called, so late as two o'clock in the morning, to meet the carrier bringing the newspaper from Keswick. Imperfect traces of the state of mind in which I then was may be found in my tract on the Convention of Cintra, as well as in these Sonnets.
264. *Zaragossa. [Sonnet XVI.]
In this sonnet I am under some obligations to one of an Italian author, to which I cannot refer.
265. *Lines on the expected Invasion, 1803. [Sonnet XXVI.]
To take their place among the political pieces.
266. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. [Sonnet XXVII.]
'Danger which they fear, and honour which they understand not.'
Words in Lord Brooke's Life of Sir Philip Sidney.