Note 40 — Chapter III · The Host conducts the Angler and Painter to Beresford Hall and Mr. Cotton’s Fishing House on the River Dove.

In a poetic epistle to John Bradshaw, Esq. describing his journey from London to Basford Hall, in his coach and four, he thus alludes to the Tower:

‘Tuesday at noon at Lichfield town we baited,

‘But there some friends, who long that hour had waited,

‘So long detain’d me, that my charioteer

‘Could drive that night but to Uttoxeter.

‘And there the Wedn’sday, being market-day,

‘I was constrain’d with some kind lads to stay,

‘Tippling till afternoon, which made it night,

‘When from my Hero’s Tow’r I saw the light

‘Of her Flambeaux, and fanci’d, as we drave,

‘Each rising hillock was a swelling wave,

‘And that I swimming was, in Neptune’s spight,

‘To my long-long’d-for harbour of delight.’

Poems on several occasions, 1689, 8º.—Ed.