It is a singular scene; I meant to have given you some account of it, but I feel myself too lazy to execute the task.

'Tis such a performance as you might have expected from some giant gardener employed by one of Queen Elizabeth's courtiers, if this same giant gardener had consulted with Spenser, and they two had finished the work together.

By this you will understand that it is at once formal and wild.

We reached Askrigg, twelve miles, before six in the evening, having been obliged to walk the last two miles over hard frozen roads, to the great annoyance of our ankles and feet.

Next morning the earth was thinly covered with snow, enough to make the road soft, and prevent its being slippery.