ly was saved in the massacre of the Normans
at York.]

[Footnote 100: Harold's banner had the device of an armed knight.]

[Footnote 101: Robert of Normandy.]

[Footnote 102: William Rufus, called the Red King.]

[Footnote 103: It is a singular fact, that the name of Editha
Pulcherrima occurs in Domesday (see Turner).]

[Footnote 104: This temple Camden places at Delgovitia.]

[Footnote 105: William took the field in spring]

[Footnote 106: In some accounts it is said the only inscription on the
tomb was, "Infelix Harold."]

[Footnote 107: The Saxon line was restored through the sister of
Atheling.]

[Footnote 108: A daughter of Harold married Waldimir of Russia.]

[Footnote 109: The picture is taken from an original, preserved in
Drake, in which William and his barons are thus represented. He is shown
in the act of presenting his nephew Alain with the forfeited lands of
Earl Edwin.]

[Footnote 110: Waltham is, literally, the Ham in the Wold.]

[Footnote 111: For this epitaph, see Speed.]

ST JOHN IN PATMOS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

This poem was first published under the name of "One of the Living
Poets of Great Britain." I have thought it best to revise and
publish it in my own name, and as it is the last written by me, and
the last I may ever live to write, I have added, from volumes long
out of print, some selected verses of my earliest days of
song.[112]

Since these were written, I have lived to hear the sounds of other
harps, whose masters have struck far more sublime chords, and died.
I have lived to see among them females[113] of the highest poetical
rank, and many illustrious masters of the lyre, whose names I need
not specify, crowned with younger and more verdant laurels, which
they yet gracefully wear. Some who now rank high in the poet's art
have acknowledged that their feelings were first excited by these
youthful strains, which I have now, with melancholy feelings,
revised for the last time.

It is a consolation that, from youth to age, I have found no line I
wished to blot, or departed a moment from the severer taste which I
imbibed from the simplest and purest models of classical
composition.

TIME--Four days.

CHARACTERS.--St John--Mysterious Stranger--Praefect of the Roman
Guard--Robber of Mount Carmel, converted--Grecian Girl and Dying
Libertine--Elders of Ep