The floor of the basement flat-paved with the blue flags of Coniston slate--is not likely to have been changed since Wordsworth's time.

The present door with its "latch" (see book ii.l.

339), is probably the same as that referred to in the poem, as in use in 1776, and onwards.

For further details see notes to book iv .-- Ed.] [Footnote l: Compare Pope's 'Rape of the Lock', canto iii.l.

54: 'Gained but one trump, and one plebeian card.' Ed.] [Footnote m: Compare Walton's 'Compleat Angler', part i.