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for the place : for James was no horseman, and as he 

 was in no danger of meeting a hedge in an area of thirty 

 miles, the going must have suited him down to the ground. 

 Indeed I do not doubt, but that in ghostly form he still 

 follows the celebrated Tedworth on their down days, 

 riding on an invisible horse, propped on a well-pillowed 

 and invisible saddle, and having an invisible bottle of 







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Christmas Eve. 



Greek wine dangling on either side. His royal prefer- 

 ence for Salisbury however drew a greater presence to 

 the place, and associated the old cathedral town with a 

 genius whose head James cut off, but in whose presence 

 he was not worth}- to stand. For here came Raleigh on 

 his last journey to London, broken down by the shame- 

 less ingratitude of princes, pining with the sickness of hope 



