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Ed.]

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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836
(p. 1).--Ed.]

[Footnote B: It may not be irrelevant to mention that our late poet,
Robert Browning, besought me--both in conversation, and by letter--to
restore this "discarded" picture, in editing 'Dion'.--Ed.]

[Footnote C: These lines are only applicable to the middle part of that
lake.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote D: In the beginning of winter, these mountains, in the
moonlight nights, are covered with immense quantities of woodcocks;
which, in the dark nights, retire into the woods.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote E: The word 'intake' is local, and signifies a
mountain-inclosure.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote F: Gill is also, I believe, a term confined to this country.
Glen, gill, and dingle, have the same meaning.--W. W. 1793.

The spelling "Ghyll" is first used in the edition of 1820 in the text.
In the note to that edition it remains "gill". In 1827 the spelling in
the note was "ghyll."--Ed.]

[Footnote G: Compare Dr. John Brown:

Not a passing breeze
Sigh'd to the grove, which in the midnight air
Stood motionless, and in the peaceful floods
Inverted hung.

and see note A to page 31.--Ed. [Footnote U of this poem]]

[Footnote H: This line was first inserted in the edition of 1845. In the
following line, the edition of 1793 has

Save that, atop, the subtle ...

Subsequent editions previous to 1845 have

Save that aloft ...

Ed.]

[Footnote J: The reader, who has made the tour of this country, will
recognize, in this description, the features which characterize the
lower waterfall in the gardens of Rydale.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote K:

"Vivid rings of green."

Greenwood's Poem on Shooting.--W. W. 1793.

The title is 'A Poem written during a Shooting Excursion on the Moors'.
It was published by Cruttwell at Bath in 1787, 4to, pp. 25. The
quotation is from stanza xvi., l. 11.--Ed.]

[Footnote L:

"Down the rough slope the pondrous waggon rings."

BEATTIE.--W. W.

1793. See 'The Minstrel', stanza xxxix., l. 4.--Ed.]

[Footnote M:

"Dolcemente feroce."

TASSO. In this description of the cock, I remembered a spirited one of
the same animal in the 'L'Agriculture ou Les Georgiques Francoises', of
M. Rossuet.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote N: I am unable to trace this quotation.--Ed.]

[Footnote P: F