Young's "Night Thoughts."]

[Footnote 23: Clock in the Cathedral.]

[Footnote 24: Traditional name of the clock-image, seated in a chair,
and striking the hours.]

[Footnote 25: _Vide_ the old ballad.]

[Footnote 26: A book, called the "Villager's Verse Book," to excite the
first feelings of religion, from common rural imagery, was written on
purpose for these children.]

[Footnote 27: See "Pilgrim's Progress."]

[Footnote 28: See Rowland Hill's caricatures, entitled "Village
Dialogues."]

[Footnote 29: The text, which no Christian can misunderstand, "God is
_not_ willing," is turned, by elaborate Jesuitical sophistry, to "God is
willing," by one "master in Israel." So that, in fact, the Almighty,
saying No when he should have said Yes, did not know what he meant, till
such a sophistical blasphemer set him right! To such length does an
adherence to preconceived Calvinism lead the mind.]

[Footnote 30: "And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three;
but the greatest of these is charity."--_St Paul_.]

[Footnote 31: Literally the expression of Hawker, the apostle of
thousands and thousands. I speak of the obvious inference drawn from
such expressions, and this daring denial of the very words of his
Master: "Happy are ye, _if_ ye do them!"--_Christ_. "_But_ in vain,"
_etc._]

[Footnote 32: I fear many churches have more to answer for than
tabernacles.]

[Footnote 33: The long controversial note appended to this poem has been
purposely suppressed.]

[Footnote 34: I forget in what book of travels I read an account of a
poor Hottentot, who being brought here, clothed, and taught our
language, after a year or two was seen, every day till he died, on some
bridge, muttering to himself, "Home go, Saldanna."]

[Footnote 35: See Bishop Heber's Journal. Yet the Shaster, or the holy
book of the Hindoos, says, "No one shall be burned, unless willingly!"]

[Footnote 36: Cowper.]

[Footnote 37: The English landlord has been held up to obloquy, as
endeavouring to keep up the price of corn, for his own sordid interest;
but rent never leads, it only follows, and the utmost a landlord can get
for his capital is three per cent., whereas the lord of whirling wheels
gains thirty per cent.]

[Footnote 38: These lines were written at Stourhead.]

[Footnote 39: The Bishop of Bath and Wells. Ken was one of the seven
bishops sent to the Tower by James. He had character, patronage, wealth,
station, eminence: he resign