The title is 'A Poem written during a Shooting Excursion on the Moors'.
It was published by Cruttwell at Bath in 1787, 4to, pp. 25. The
quotation is from stanza xvi., l. 11.--Ed.
]
[Footnote L:
"Down the rough slope the
pondrous
waggon rings.
"
BEATTIE.--W. W.
1793. See 'The Minstrel', stanza xxxix., l. 4.--Ed.]
[Footnote M:
"Dolcemente feroce."
TASSO. In this description of the cock, I remembered a spirited one of
the same animal in the 'L'Agriculture ou Les Georgiques Francoises', of
M. Rossuet.--W. W. 1793.
