_Melancholy of a Friend_.
'I regret much not to have been made acquainted with your wish to have employed your vacation in a pedestrian tour, both on your account, as it would have contributed greatly to exhilarate your spirits, and on mine, as we should have gained much from the addition of your society.

Such an excursion would have served like an Aurora Borealis to gild your long Lapland night of melancholy.'[27] 7.

_Holy Orders_.
About this time Wordsworth was urged by some of his relatives to take holy orders.

Writing from Cambridge, September 23rd, to Mathews, he says: 'I quitted Wales on a summons from Mr.Robinson, a gentleman you most likely have heard me speak of, respecting my going into orders and taking a curacy at Harwich; which curacy he considered as introductory to the living.

I thought it was best to pay my respects to him in person, to inform him that I am not of age for ordination.'[28] [26] Letter to William Mathews, _Memoirs_, i.