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q off set he with f&fe' horsed , &nd 4 ie wftib * * H *^ vVitt ^ at t ^^ ff tfHe ^ atfei 4 , antf ' wheti fee £ &rrte tiear tfe well , as he couW not lead hi ^ horses etose to it liy reason of the ; \ b 6 ^ , he tied the drftlt to a st&ne , and down he went to fetch th 4 wat ^ i and ra ising it wifcft Iris pail , off heHset % 6 poiir it over his hor&es . Buti my dear toiiey ^ he had not 'go tie teri step * from 1 the tv £ l ) , when the pally as if it bad no bottom at HU let out all "thtf water ; back he iroes again , but not better was his bad ¦
^ - _ ^ m . « mas * * « luck ; he might have been lifting the water until Lady ^ Day and yet not one drop of the blessed liquid would the heretic be permitted to earry ; it stole out of the pail as it wotild out of a sieve : at length a sudden dimness
came over the man ' s eyes , and it would make you latigh to see Johnny M'Clure wandering about the bog as bliTid as a beetle * tumbling into the bog holes , rolling and weltering in the mud . At length fear came on the man , and thegrace of God gave him
a good thought , and he vowed to the blessed Virgin Mary and all the Saints , that if h £ recovered his sight he would go to mass next Sunday . The momeat he said this he saw his eyesight come ; up he bounced , ran to the blessed well and took a hearty drink ,
and he became as good a Catholic and as happy & man as ev ^ r you ' saw : immediately he took'up the pail , lifted it full of water , whieh the pail now carried as stauuch afc need be , and a Catholic neighbour making the sign of the cross while he washed them
with the water , fo a hand's tarn ( as I may say ) they bec&fne as clean and sound as a trout , and Jack M'Clure went home , hU horses ( Mired , and he a good Catholic , which h ^ retn siined to his dying day . "
% This story Barney O I ) onnel told mtlj all the expressioa of perfect fait h ; I verily consider that he be ^ lievcd all he narrated . This well has another excellent effect—the good housewives of the district use it as a
Jtt rtam alexipharmick against in fide-1 (^ y in their husbands ; nothing need w done but to keep a bottle of it well ^ r ked under the bed ' s-head , and the Rood man of the house remains as he 8 Kmld be , true and faithful . A valua Well it jnust be , and highly to be P ^ ed-this antUjealousy iv&ter . I was
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Md even <^ f Protestant ladies who placed full rettanee in ihfe di ^ fAe *^ medy . What a pity it is nM llmm beyond thfe little district ? t ^ ble ^ A water Ic ^ eps well ; einblehiatife of i \ ib purity it provides for , it is in ^ apatble of corruption—it might be sent to all pans of the world—to Lotulofi- to Paris .
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Dr . Evans on a Motto from Shakspeare . 667
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Islington ^ Sm , -Nov . 5 , 1825 . AN « w ^« 26 > w ^ correspondeiEit wishes me to inform him , through thfe medium of the Monthly Repository , in what part of Shakspeare ' s writinifs I obtained that " beautiful
quotation /* prefixed by way of motto to the Sermbn mi the Education of the Poor , inserted in my volume of Tracts recently pubKshed . The lines are thus found in the second part of Henry the Sixth , ri , cfc 4 th , scene 7 th :
— -Seeing Ignorance is the curse of God , Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven ! Capel Loft , in his yiphorkm ^ of Shakspeare , attaches to this passage a sentence from Theognis , of Megara ,
a Grecian poet , who lived about 500 years beforfe Christ , in which a similar sentimetit is recognized . This heathen bard was remarkable for the purity of his strains ; and Dr . Priestley , I recollect , makes use of him in his
admirable work on the Comparison betto&eii Socrates and Jesus Christ . Sh&kspeare , according to hfe eontemjtoraty , Ben Johnson , had * small Iiat ? ri and less Greek , " yet he may have had sufficient knowledge of the latter
language to ha ^ e read Thehgnu ,: ' br he may have become acquainted with him through the medium of tr ^ Mlati&it . But no more oh this stibjjeet ^ TiaVJhg touched upon it many yeatfs ftjtoitt ifly Memoir of Shatispeare , preffii ^ d to iny Illustration of hU Seven Ages , drawn
up for the use of the rising generation . After all , in my humble opinion , the sentiment spontaneously emanated from the mind of our great tfkr § , wito " was not of an age , but born for all time , " sa tnmsccndontly ^ iftftdg ) y nature , that , as Pope exjpre ^ seBiit , Jlie
was the organ through \ vhidfcri $ hc *| M ! Oclahned herself l ? o latest ppsterifcy 4 Happily the motto contains a momentous truth , of the importance of which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/27/
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