*_Sonnet_ XI.
'Dark and more dark,' &c.
October 3d or 4th, 1802.

Composed after a journey over the Hambleton Hills, on a day memorable to me--the day of my marriage.

The horizon commanded by those hills is most magnificent.
The next day, while we were travelling in a post-chaise up Wensley Dale, we were stopt by one of the horses proving restiff, and were obliged to wait two hours in a severe storm before the post-boy could fetch from the Inn another to supply its place.

The spot was in front of Bolton Hall, where Mary Queen of Scots was kept prisoner soon after her unfortunate landing at Workington.

The place then belonged to the Scroopes, and memorials of her are yet preserved there.