The crisis of 1745.--General Gordon.--Diarists of the eighteenth century.--Still glides the stream.--Poetry and age.--Summer: 1782.--On being content.--Taking the road.--Morning.--Easter day.--The wise men.--Clothall.--Beresford dale.--Reflections on Bacon.--Old Thames.--Supping with the poets.--Throcking.--John Bunyan and women.--The poet Gray and Parson Etough.--The village fête.--On revisiting Norbury.--Tranquillity.