The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. VII

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devotion of his guest, how fervent it was, and how firm, his heart was touched.... When the persecutors came to search the house, Alban, putting on the hair-cassock of his teacher, delivered himself into their hands, as if he had been the fugitive, and was carried before the heathen governor.... Because he refused to betray his guest or offer sacrifices to the Roma

n that rude age, traces of which are frequent in his works:-"Variis herbarum floribus depictus imo usquequaque vestitus, in quo nihil repente arduum, nihil pr?ceps, nihil abruptum, quem l