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{275} The church of Willenhall, Staffordshire, near Mumpers' Dingle, is, perhaps, intended.

The hymn was originally Cennick's, but the verse in question Charles Wesley's.

The old tune Helmsley (not St.Thomas) was a favourite of Queen Victoria.
{277} Chieftain.
{286} Dukkerin, fortune-telling: duk or dook, ghost.
{288} See Introduction, p.

9.
{289} The Shakespearean meaning was hysterical passion.

See _Lear_, II., iv.


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