Cole says, in his _Athenæ Cant._, that Horace Walpole latterly lived
and died a Sceptic; but when a student at King's College, Cambridge,
he was of "a religious enthusiastic turn of mind, and used to go with
Ashton (the late Dr., Master of Jesus College,) his then great friend,
to pray with the prisoners in the castle." Dyer gives the following
poetical version of