CHAPTER VIII.
CLOSE OF LIFE.
Cowper says there could not have been a happier trio on earth than Lady Hesketh, Mrs.Unwin, and himself.

Nevertheless, after his removal to Weston, he again went mad, and once more attempted self-destruction.
His malady was constitutional, and it settled down upon him as his years increased, and his strength failed.

He was now sixty.

The Olney physicians, instead of husbanding his vital power, had wasted it away _secundum artem_ by purging, bleeding, and emetics.

He had overworked himself on his fatal translation of Homer, under the burden of which he moved, as he says himself, like an ass over-laden with sand-bags.