[B] This line is from _The Battle of Bosworth Field_, by Sir John Beaumont (Brother to the Dramatist), whose poems are written with so much spirit, elegance, and harmony, that it is supposed, as the Book is very scarce, a new edition of it would be acceptable to Scholars and Men of taste, and, accordingly, it is in contemplation to give one.--W. W. 1807. Beaumont's line in _The Battle of Bosworth Field_ is-- The earth assists thee with the cry of blood. ED. [C] "No three words could better describe the gulfs on the side of Saddleback." (H. D. Rawnsley.) [D] "Rugged patches of Hawkweed, golden rod, and white water ranunculus in the pools." (H. D. Rawnsley.) [E] The eagle nested in Borrowdale as late as 1785.--ED. [F] It is imagined by the people of the Country that there are two immortal Fish, Inhabitants of this Tarn, which lies in the mountains not far from Threlkeld. Blencathara, mentioned before, is the old and proper name of the mountain vulgarly called Saddle-back.--W. W. 1807. [G] The martial character of the Cliffords is well known to the readers of English History; but it may not be improper here to say, by way of comment on these lines and what follows, that, besides several others who perished in the same manner, the four immediate Progenitors of the person in whose hearing this is supposed to be spoken, all died in the Field.--W. W. 1807. Compare _The Borderers_, act III. l. 56 (vol. i. p. 173)-- They say, Lord Clifford is a savage man. ED. [H] He was killed at Ferrybridge the day before the battle of Towton.--ED. 1808 The poems referring to Coleorton are all transferred to the year 1807, and _The Force of Prayer_ was written in that year. Those composed in 1808 were few in number. With the exception of _The White Doe of Rylstone_--to which additions were made in that year--they include only the two sonnets _Composed while the Author was engaged in writing a Tract, occasioned by the Convention of Cintra_, and the fragment on _George and Sarah Green_. The latter poem Wordsworth gave to De Quincey, who published it in his "Recollections of Grasmere," which appeared in _Tait's Edinburgh Magazine_ in September 1839; but it never found a place in any edition of Wordsworth's own poems. In this edition it is printed in the appendix to volume viii.