Suggested at Hacket, which is on the craggy ridge that rises 
      between the two Langdales and looks towards Windermere. The 
      Cottage of Hacket was often visited by us, and at the time when 
      this Sonnet was written, and long after, was occupied by the 
      husband and wife described in the "Excursion," where it is 
      mentioned that she was in the habit of walking in the front of the 
      dwelling with a light to guide her husband home at night. The same 
      cottage is alluded to in the "Epistle to Sir George Beaumont" as 
      that from which the female peasant hailed us on our morning 
      journey. The musician mentioned in the Sonnet was the Rev. Samuel 
      Tillbrook of Peter-house, Cambridge, who remodelled the Ivy 
      Cottage at Rydal after he had purchased it.
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This and the following eight sonnets between the years 
      1810-15.