Note 47 — THE FALL OF NEEDWOOD.
Reading edition
[Your hush’d leaves &c.] Alfred on the night of his retirement from the Danes, it is said, had a vision of St. Cuthbert, comforting and assuring him he should be a great King.—Camden’s Britannia.
Reading edition
[Your hush’d leaves &c.] Alfred on the night of his retirement from the Danes, it is said, had a vision of St. Cuthbert, comforting and assuring him he should be a great King.—Camden’s Britannia.