stablished_.

{59c} And lies in the highroad, a prize for all comers.

{59d} But by "dead as a nit" evidently is meant more than
_disestablished_; it means also _disendowed_. Else, what of "all the
dogs in the town," each craving and clamouring for his bone? It was so
three hundred years ago. Each dog "_spook_ for a bone," and _got it_.

{59e} "All but the Parson's dog." The poor vicars never got back a bit
of the impropriate tithes; the seats of learning got comparatively
little. The "dogs about town" got most. Then, in the last touching
words, "the Parson's dog he went wi' none," yet still singing, "Folderol
diddledol, hidum humpf."

{62} Something.

{63} Quiet.

{68} A copy of his will lies before me; it opens:--"In the name of God,
Amen. I, Robinson Groome, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, mariner, being of sound
mind and disposing disposition, and considering the perils and dangers of
the seas and other uncertainties of this transitory world, do, for the
sake of avoiding controversies after my decease, make this my Will," &c.

{69} Years before, FitzGerald and my father called together at Ufford.
The drawing-room there had been newly refurnished, and FitzGerald sat
himself down on an amber satin couch. Presently a black stream was seen
trickling over it. It came from a penny bottle of ink, which FitzGerald
had bought in Woodbridge and put in a tail-pocket.

{70} Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald. (3 vols.
Macmillan, 1889; 2d ed. of Letters, 2 vols. 1894.) Reference may also be
made to Mr Wright's article in the 'Dictionary of National Biography'; to
another, of special charm and interest, by Professor Cowell, in the new
edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia; to Sir Frederick Pollock's Personal
Reminiscences; to the Life of Lord Houghton; to an article by Edward
Clodd in the 'English Illustrated Magazine' (1894); to the 'Edinburgh
Review' (1895); and to FitzGerald's Letters to Fanny Kemble in 'Temple
Bar' (1895).

{76} This was the hymn--its words, like the music, by my father--that is
printed at the end of this volume.

{81} Reprinted in vol. ii. of the American edition of FitzGerald's
Works.

{87} That letter is one item in the printed and manuscript, prose and
verse, contents of four big Commonplace Books, formed by the late Master
of Trinity, and given at his death by Mrs Thompson to my father. They
included a good many unpublished poems by Lord Tennyson, Frederic
Tennyso