T for 2 0 6 Sleep for 2 1 0 Meat and Taties and Bier 1 6 Bresks 1 6
Four shillings and sixpence for bed and board for two wolfish appetites for a night and a day, to say nothing of the pantomime performed gratuitously for our behoof, at a very early hour, by Boscastle amateurs! Good day, Mrs. Treworgy! good day! "To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new."
[116] From _Belgravia_, vol. iii. pp. 328-337. 1867.
[117] The author and Rev. Dr. Jeune, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, father of Sir Francis Jeune.
"O type of a far scene! the lovely land, Where youth wins many a friend, and I had one; Still do thy bulwarks, dear old Oxford, stand? Yet, Isis, do thy thoughtful waters run?"
"For, 'ground in yonder social mill We rub each other's angles down,
'And merge,' he said, 'in form and gloss, The picturesque of man and man.'"
[120] Such things have been known to occur even in these degenerate days.
[121] A variant of a line in Hawker's poem, "A Legend of the Hive."
[122] The Oxford crone speaks with a Cornish accent, and some think that she hailed from Stratton.
[123] Hawker came in contact, however, with some of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, as we learn from a letter where he says: "How I recollect their faces and words--Newman, Pusey, Ward, Marriott; they used to be all in the common-room every evening, discussing, talking, reading." Hawker went up to Oxford in 1822, and won the Newdigate in 1827, when Newman was a Tutor of Oriel and Keble was publishing "The Christian Year."
[124] One of the kind so often used by Wesley for his open-air sermons in Cornwall. See p. 160.
[125] Compare Hawker's poem,"Trebarrow," and his footnote thereto.
[126] From the description of Carradon in "The Quest of the Sangraal."
"Kings of the main their leaders brave, Their barks the dragons of the wave."
[128] Compare Hawker's well-known ballad, "The Silent Tower of Bottreaux."
[129] There were no "earls" of Bottreaux. Knights, or barons, would be more correct.
"that gray king, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak, And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still."
"One breed may rise, another fall; The Berkshire hog survives them all."
It was, perhaps, in commemoration of this episode that Hawker when afterwards curate of North Tamerton, kept a tame Berkshire pig. Another parson-poet, Robert Herrick, is also said to have had a pet porker.