. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . rial for him, none could have been found more fitting thanthis. Is it not in the neighbourhood of that beautiful river Ichen,whose water is so transparent that it looks rather like condensedair, and in which his beloved trouts sail about as plain to the eyeas the birds are on the boughs that overhang it ? Is it not bythat sweet valley in which he delighted, and in that solemnminster that he loved, and by that daughter whom he loved stillmore, and amid the haunt
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . rial for him, none could have been found more fitting thanthis. Is it not in the neighbourhood of that beautiful river Ichen,whose water is so transparent that it looks rather like condensedair, and in which his beloved trouts sail about as plain to the eyeas the birds are on the boughs that overhang it ? Is it not bythat sweet valley in which he delighted, and in that solemnminster that he loved, and by that daughter whom he loved stillmore, and amid the haunts of those bishops and pious menwhom he venerated, that the good old disciple, not only of Christbut of Andrew and Peter, and of all sacred fishermen, lies ?—Peace and lasting honour to him! and great thanks should weowe him, had he never left us any other sentiment than that whichhe penned down when he heard the nightingales singing, as hesate angling—Lord, what music hast thou provided for thesaints in Heaven, when thou afFordest bad men such music onEarth!—Complete Angler, p. 10, Majors edition. VISIT TO WINCHESTER. 465. -T7!^ COLLEGE GATEWAY. WYKEHAMS COLLEGE. The most interesting thing in Winchester, which yet remainsin its antiquity, next to the cathedral, is Wykehams old grammar-schools which are scattered over this country,and so many of which have now become vitiated in their manage-ment, or nullified in their original intentions of good, but intowhich circumstance it is not our present province to enter, havea great deal that is most deeply interesting connected with theirorigin and earlier course. In pursuing the object of this work ina future volume, we shall probably have a good deal to say onthis subject, which our present limits will not allow us to ventureon. But in the early days of our history, five or six centuriesago, when the feudal system was in its strength; when thebarriers of temporal rank were as fixed and impassable as gates H H 46
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