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and, as there is so little temptation to persist in 

 our angling, we had, I think, better change the 

 scene to the town, which is not without its 

 objects of interest. As we return we can visit 

 the spot in which are the mortal remains of 

 Southey, and where, in memory of him, his form 

 is preserved in monumental marble. See, yon- 

 der is Crosthwaite Church and churchyard, the 

 receptacle of both ; and further on, nearer the 

 Grreta, standing on that eminence above the 

 stream the delight of the poet is Grreta 

 Hall, where he spent so many years and so 

 happily, as he assures us, of his useful and 

 laborious intellectual life, exemplifying a fa- 

 vourite saying of his, in labore quies. 



AMICUS. Eespecting as I do the man, and 

 both for his genius and his worth, I shall have 

 pleasure in accompanying you. Would that I 

 could say with you that I had known the poet 

 and seen him, where he was seen to most ad- 

 vantage, in his own house and amongst his 

 beloved and inspiring books. 



PISCATOR. That indeed was a privilege, like 

 admission to Eydal Mount, in the lifetime of 

 his great confrere. Each dwelling was cha- 

 racteristic ; the one, Eydal Mount, a paradise 



