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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
First published in the same work.
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O'er faded heath-flowers spun, or thorny furze.
The web, charged with innumerable globules of bright dew, that is frequently on heaths and commons in autumnal mornings, can hardly have escaped the observation of any lover of nature.— The slender web of the field spider is again alluded to in Sonnet lxxvii.
First printed in the novel of "The Banished Man."
To the excellent friend and physician to whom these lines are addressed, I was obliged for the kindest
