It was in the library at Hunt's cottage, where an extemporary bed had been made up for him on the sofa, that he composed the framework and many lines of the poem on "Sleep and Poetry,"the last sixty or seventy being an inventory of the art-garniture of the room.

Eighty councillors, sixty of whom are quite unknown men.

Sixty, quite fastthat was one minute.

Accordingly that night he sent back against the towns a detachment of four hundred men, sixty of whom were regulars, and the rest picked militia.

Unluckily business too often stood in the way of pleasure, for the 'sixties were very busy years.