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Crotchet castle, by the author of Headlong hall
Crotchet castle by the author of Headlong hall Author:Thomas Love Peacock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPv IIL THE ROMAN CAMP. He loved her more then seven yere, Yet was he of her love never the nere ; He was not ryche of golde and fe, A gentyll man forsot... more »h was he. The N'/ .'/'' '.'/' l'wr The Reverend Doctor Folliott having promised to return to dinner, walked back to his vicarage, meditating whether he should pass the morning in writing his next sermonr or in angling for trout, and had nearly decided in favor of the latter proposition, repeating to himself, with great unction, the lines of Chaucer : And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bokis for to read I me delite, And to 'hem yeve I faithe and full credence, And in mine herte have 'hem in reverence, So hertily, that there is game none, That fro my bokis makith me to gone, But it be seldome, on the holie daie; Save certainly whan that the month of Maie Is comin, and I here the foulis sing, And that the flouris ginnin for to spring, Farwell my boke and my devotion: when his attention was attracted by a young gentleman who was sitting on a camp stool with a portfolio on his knee, taking a sketch of the Roman Camp, which, as has been already said, was within the enclosed domain of Mr. Crotchet. The young stranger, who had climbed over the fence, espying the portly divine, rose up, and hoped that he was not trespassing. " By no means, sir," said the divine, " all the arts and sciences are welcome here; music, painting, and poetry; hydrostatics, and political economy; meteorology,transcendentalism, and fish for breakfast." THE STRANGER. A pleasant association, sir, and a liberal and discriminating hospitality. This is an old British camp, I believe, sir. THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT. Roman, sir; Roman: undeniably Roman. The vallum is past controversy. It was not a camp, sir, a castrum, but a cast...« less