To sit at one's ease and poetise-thatis a pleasure; everybody has something agreeable to say to you, and you are always your own master.

If you take up business, you drop poetising.

No, with-with-reminiscencesofmy travels, which I recount to Hartmut, while he poetises a little, and composes melancholy odes from them.

There lies young Wellerby, who, the year before, was wont to pass many hours of the day poetising amid the ruins of Godstow nunnery.