• suggestive sp< 

 -Hit "The Cloisteio 

 ..iet and seclusion of t 

 .i are discoloured by damps, ai: 

 a coat of hoary moss has gathercu . 

 ; of the mural monuments, and ou^ 

 s heads, and other mural emblems, 

 sharp touches of the chisel are gone from the rich 

 tracery of the arches; the roses which adorned the 

 keystones have '^" ' ■" ^ "^"^eauty; everything bears 

 marks of the , ns of time, which yet 



has something its very decay." 



an J 



hea 



boiste; carea - 



alone, - - . o. " 1 j ^ 



not courage to venture alone among the Westminster 



boys ; they are as formidable to me as the ship carpenters 



at Port ' ," he wrote in t" ^ ^' n in those days 



the •" inent c,r!u. lii- / a long one — 



H Dry den, Wren, 



d away, besides 



otl. arren Hastings, 



^- ' .-..iC ground. 



. gardens within the 



precincts of the Abbey, besides the infirmary garden ; but 



it is di ~ ill of them with certain- 



the sitca v>. cv^'.^.v. u.c known. The abbot's ^...w.. 



'" the north-west anp;le of the wall, and must 



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