tured cell, or tomb, or vault;
By plate of monumental brass 345
Dim-gleaming among weeds and grass,
And sculptured Forms of Warriors brave:
But chiefly by that single grave,
That one sequestered hillock green,
The pensive visitant is seen. 350
There doth the gentle Creature lie
With those adversities unmoved;
Calm spectacle, by earth and sky
In their benignity approved!
And aye, methinks, this hoary Pile, 355
Subdued by outrage and decay,
Looks down upon her with a smile,
A gracious smile, that seems to say--
"Thou, thou art not a Child of Time,
But Daughter of the Eternal Prime!" 360

The following is the full text of the first "note" to _The White Doe of
Rylstone_, published in the quarto edition of 1815. The other notes to
that edition are printed in this, at the foot of the pages where they
occur:--

"The Poem of _The White Doe of Rylstone_ is founded on a local
tradition, and on the Ballad in Percy's Collection, entitled _The
Rising of the North_. The tradition is as follows: 'About this
time,' not long after the Dissolution, 'a White Doe, say the aged
people of the neighbourhood, long continued to make a weekly
pilgrimage from Rylstone over the fells of Bolton, and was
constantly found in the Abbey Church-yard during divine service;
after the close of which she returned home as regularly as the
rest of the congregation.'--Dr. WHITAKER'S _History of the Deanery
of Craven_.--Rylstone was the property and residence of the
Nortons, distinguished in that ill-advised and unfortunate
Insurrection, which led me to connect with this tradition the
principal circumstances of their fate, as recorded in the Ballad
which I have thought it proper to annex.

_The Rising in the North._

"The subject of this ballad is the great Northern Insurrection in
the 12th year of Elizabeth, 1569, which proved so fatal to Thomas
Percy, the seventh Earl of Northumberland.

"There had not long before been a secret negociation entered into
between some of the Scottish and English nobility, to bring about
a marriage between Mary Q. of Scots, at that time a prisoner in
England, and the Duke of Norfolk, a nobleman of excellent
character. This match was proposed to all the most considerable of
the English nobility, and