"I've seen enough of this moated grange," cried Patty.

clos'd up a festering wound Which rots the heart: like a bad Surgeon, Labouring to plucke out from your eye a moate, You thrust the eye clean out.

I have read, drawn, and sewed till I am as weary as Marianna in the moated grange.

I think it was in 1814 that he began his occupation of Playford Halla moated mansion near Ipswich, formerly of great importance where he lived as Gentleman Farmer, managing a farm leased from the Marquis of Bristol, and occupying a good position among the gentry of the county.

Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers.

Nay, mine host, heeres a moate in your eye to [sic].

Some of our readers, we would fain hope, remember as an era in their lives the first day on which they read those earlier poems; how, fifteen years ago, Mariana in the Moated Grange, "The Dying Swan," "The Lady of Shalott," came to them as revelations.

Upon the middle of the night Waking she heard the night-fowl crow; The cock sang out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seemed to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange.

CHAPTER XXIII Our moated farmWulverghemThe Curé's houseA shattered ChurchMore "heavies"A farm on fire.

I followed along behind the Colonel down the road, down the corduroy boards, and out at the old moated farm not far from Wulverghem.

CHAPTER XXIII OUR MOATED FARMWULVERGHEMTHE CURÉ'S HOUSEA SHATTERED CHURCH

" "And that is the reason," said I calmly, "that your brother the doctor works his tricks so cleverly at the Moated Grange.

" "And you will be willing to go to the Moated Grange, and, if necessary, swear to those things?"

It was about seven o'clock of that same evening that Mrs. Gourlay and I reached the Moated Grange.

In Mariana, expanded from a hint of the forsaken maid in Shakspere's Measure for Measure, "Mariana at the moated grange," the poet showed an art then peculiar, but since grown familiar, of heightening the central feeling by landscape accessories.

In a lovely green hollow, surrounded by splendid old trees and velvet turf, stands Ightham Mote, a gem among old English moated manor-houses.

There is practically no other moated castle in England which compares with Bodiam in its completeness.

One of the most perfect moated castles in England.] COLCHESTER, ESSEX =How to get there.=Train from Liverpool Street.

An Elizabethan moated mansion.

Mariana in the moated grange.

The broken sheds look'd sad and strange Uplifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient thatch, Upon the lonely moated grange.

Without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange.

The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour When the thick-moated sunbeam lay Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping towards his western bower.

"Mariana in the moated grange was not more to be pitied than I." How often the words occurred to her: "The day is dreary, 'He cometh not,' she said: She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, would that I were dead.'

But instead of printing the original place-names, they put "Moated Grange," or "Clapham Junction," or "Dead Dog Farm," which simplifies matters beyond all possibility of error.