The Western Antiquary, Volum 12

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William Henry Kearley Wright
Latimer & son, 1893
"Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury, '" Mar. 1881-May 1884.

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Side 25 - I'll venture my life She has drank of the Well of St. Keyne." "I have left a good woman who never was here...
Side 25 - For from cock-crow he had been travelling, And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he, And he sat down upon the bank Under the willow tree.
Side 24 - A WELL there is in the west country, And a clearer one never was seen ; There is not a wife in the west country But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne.
Side 5 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Side 25 - You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes?" He to the Cornish-man said; But the Cornish-man smiled as the stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. "I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch; But i" faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church.
Side 25 - St. Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. 'But if the wife should drink of it first — God help the husband then!' The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water again.
Side 88 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Side 34 - ... required, and a mistake in which would have been to a young man severely compromising ; writing on the palm of my hand, by the light of a dark...
Side 25 - Now art thou a bachelor, stranger?" quoth he, " For an if thou hast a wife, The happiest draught thou hast drank this day That ever thou didst in thy life. " Or hast thy good woman, if one thou hast, Ever here in Cornwall been?
Side 61 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...

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