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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 





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 



