The next zone, including Sunbury, Walton, Weybridge, right on to Windsor, is a quiet one. It has its own charm, but lacks any exceptional features of striking interest. Placid green meadows, feathery willows, peaceful cows, and sunny little unpretentious houses are the chief components of almost every view. Weybridge is perhaps the prettiest place, because of the many turnings and windings of the river near it, but Penton Hook, Laleham, Shepperton, and Walton can all claim a quiet prettiness of their own. Windsor stands by itself, and the influence of Eton is paramount. Then from Bray right on to Marlow we get what must be by far the most popular bit of the whole river. Bray itself is particularly pleasant, and is associated for all time with the worthy vicar, who was content to turn his coat at the bidding of the party in power sooner than lose his beloved parish. The original vicar lived in the reigns of Henry VIII and his immediate successor, and his mental somersaults were from the Catholic to Reformed Church, and back once more; but the ballad makes him live in the days of Charles II, James II, William, Anne, and George I, a period of over fifty years. As it is rather difficult to get hold of, we may quote part of it here. It runs through all the variations from-- In good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High Churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed, Kings were by God appointed, And damn'd are those that do resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. When royal James obtained the crown And Popery came in fashion, The Penal laws I hooted down And read the Declaration. The Church of Rome I found would fit Full well my constitution, And had become a Jesuit But for the Revolution. * * * * When George in pudding-time came o'er, And moderate men looked big, sir, I turned a cat-in-a-pan once more And so became a whig, sir. And thus preferment I secured From our new faith's defender, And almost every day abjured The Pope and the Pretender. * * * * For this is law I will maintain Until my dying day, sir. Whatever king in England reign I'll still be Vicar of Bray, sir.