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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth

PART III
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[XXXIV.] The subject of the following poem is from the 'Orlandus' of the author's friend, Kenelm Henry Digby: and the liberty is taken of inscribing it to him as an acknowledgment, however unworthy, of pleasure and instruction derived from his numerous and valuable writings, illustrative of the piety and chivalry of the olden time.

*Rydal Mount, 1830.
80.

_Percy's 'Reliques'_ (foot-note on 1.

2).
'You have heard "a Spanish Lady How she wooed an English man."' See in Percy's _Reliques_ that fine old ballad, 'The Spanish Lady's Love'; from which Poem the form of stanza, as suitable to dialogue, is adopted.
81.

*_Loving and Liking_.


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