Antonio's love song, &c. 33 



gether with any other excrescences, and the materials placed upon 

 the head. There is gravel at the apex : this I lately saw where 

 a hole had been dug. It is veryi^robable that this mound was 

 formerly called Cruck-burrow hill, the word burrow being of Sax- 

 on derivation, and meaning a place fenced or fortified. If, however, 

 it really is a barrow, I presume that it is the largest in the king- 

 dom. As the Berrow Hill is of a very oval shape, it is more than 

 probable that its sides were also pared down by the aborigines of 

 our island ; for there are lines of intrenchment round it near the 

 top, in the same manner as at Wood-bury Hill. 



Under all the circumstances detailed in this and my previous 

 paper, I submit that doubts can no longer exist of there having been 

 either Roman camps, stations, or forts at Worcester, Powick, and 

 Kempsey, and probably also at various other places in this beautiful 

 county. 



I 



Catherine Villa, Near Worcester, 

 Feb. 1, 1836. 



ANTONIO'S LOVE SONG; or, DON QUIXOTE'S 

 REVERIE.* 



"As a madman fancies every one mad but himself, a patient with vertigo 

 that every object is going round, so man, in the pertinacity of ignorance, 

 transforms truth into error, by a blind supposition that truth is with him 

 only."-l- 



Thou flower of chivalry ! incomparable man ! I see thee sitting 

 elbow to elbow with thy incomparable Squire ; thy tarnished mail, 

 with more rust on it than dishonour, brushing against the rough 

 hose of thy antithesis — that emptier of wine- skins and flesh-pots — 

 Sancho the first and the last — the Sir John of his class. I see thee; 

 the inverted trough giving repose to the finest Caballero in La 

 Mancha and all Spain to boot, side by side, " cheek by jowl" with 



* See vol. i. 



f The Wonld'Be ; old copy, p. 57. 

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