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10. {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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