The expression when the hounds were out, 'I dearly love their voice,' was word for word from his own lips.
427.

*_Lines written in Germany_.

1798-9.

[VII.] 'A plague,' &c.
A bitter winter it was when these verses were composed by the side of my sister, in our lodgings, at a draper's house, in the romantic imperial town of Goslar, on the edge of the Hartz Forest.

In this town the German Emperors of the Franconian line were accustomed to keep their court, and it retains vestiges of ancient splendour.