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The quotation is a reference to Lamb's sonnet, "I was not Trained in Academic Bowers," written at Cambridge in 1819: Yet can I fancy, wandering 'mid thy towers, Myself a nursling, Granta, of thy lap; My brow seems tightening with the Doctor's cap, And I walk gownèd. Agnize. Lamb was fond of this word. I do agnise A natural and prompt alacrity. Red-letter days. See note on page 351.
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