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Ward thinks that the entire machinery of Oberon and his court may have been derived from Greene's 'Scottish History of James IV, and that Titania may have been suggested by Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale. He probably owed his fairies in great measure to tradition or folk-lore.
"You needn't take any water up for me tonight, Tibby," he said, as he went in to supper, for he had already filled his bath. "Nonsense, Willie," returned Tibbie, still out of temper because of the mess at the door. "Your papa says you must have your bath, and my poor old bones must ache for 't." "The bath's filled already. If you put in one other pailful, it'll run over when I get into it."
Chaucer makes the Wife of Bath say in the Wife of Bath's Prologue:
"No," I said. "Fancy!" "Oh, it's a splendid thing for a girl nothing like it. You see the woman looks after her like a maid and a nurse both; makes sure her bath's the right temperature, takes care of her if she gets the grippe; sits up and gives her beef tea or chocolate after balls, massages her, and things like that.
Then, with a satisfied smile, he turned away, with purpose to dispose of Bannerman's note. "Bath's ready, sor." O'Hagan's announcement fell upon heedless ears. Maitland remained motionless before the desk transfixed with amazement. "Bath's ready, sor!" imperatively. Maitland roused slightly. "Very well; in a minute, O'Hagan." Yet for some time he did not move.
When I had closed Chaucer I returned to Ovid, and translated some more of his fables; and by this time had so far forgotten the Wife of Bath's tale that, when I took up Boccace unawares, I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood, and titles, in the story of Sigismunda, which I had certainly avoided for the resemblance of the two discourses, if my memory had not failed me.
Many of the most picturesque parks are but little known, lying as they do remote from railway stations. Mr. Nesfield, the great landscape-gardener, considers that Longleat, the marquis of Bath's, near Warminster, has greater natural advantages than any park in England, and that these have been made the most of.
Your brother will need the best rooms Bath's can give him; and when he's not actually on the hustings, he'll be hobnobbing in the bar, standing as many drinks as there are throats in the crowd," gave back Mahony, who had the lowest possible opinion of colonial politics. "Well, at least I can write and tell him how delighted we are," said Polly, not to be done.
It was unsatisfactory. Six weeks' time? The man might as well have said a year. And meanwhile Purdy was stealing a march on him, was paying clandestine visits to Geelong. Was it conceivable that anyone in his five senses could prefer Tilly to Polly? It was not. In the clutch of a sudden fear Mahony went to Bath's and ordered a horse for the following morning.
"He once had a duel with Colonel Gumley, Lady Bath's brother, who had been his great friend. Here, take my purse; if you kill me, you will be forced to run away, and then you will not have a shilling to support you. Braddock refused the purse, insisted on the duel, was disarmed, and would not even ask his life.
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