. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2100.—View of aucient 2101.—The great Cloth-market, Leeds, established by Edward ITT., as it appeared about 1610.{From a Print in the Kings Library, Brit. Mus.) 2102.—Hendlip House, near Worcester, pulled down since 1800 No. 77.—Vol. IT. 225 22C> OLD ENGLAND. [Book VI. matter earnestly, and Donne again sought his wifes consent andobtained it. Some of the poets first verses commemorate theparting. Speaking in them of his own and his wifes soul, he says, If they be two, the
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2100.—View of aucient 2101.—The great Cloth-market, Leeds, established by Edward ITT., as it appeared about 1610.{From a Print in the Kings Library, Brit. Mus.) 2102.—Hendlip House, near Worcester, pulled down since 1800 No. 77.—Vol. IT. 225 22C> OLD ENGLAND. [Book VI. matter earnestly, and Donne again sought his wifes consent andobtained it. Some of the poets first verses commemorate theparting. Speaking in them of his own and his wifes soul, he says, If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are twoThy soul, the fixd foot, makes no show: To move ; but doth if the other though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam,It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect when that comes home. Let us observe by the way, that one hardly knows which to wonderat most, the exquisite poetical beauty of the feeling of these lines,or the excessively unpoetical character of the material agencies bymeans of which that feeling is developed. But such was the cha-racteristic of D
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