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Updated: May 13, 2025

‘Thank you both,’ said I, ‘but I will not come.’ ‘Wherefore?’ exclaimed both simultaneously. ‘Because it is neither fit nor proper that I cross into Wales at this time, and in this manner. When I go into Wales, I should wish to go in a new suit of superfine black, with hat and beaver, mounted on a powerful steed, black and glossy, like that which bore Greduv to the fight of Catraeth.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

When I go into Wales, I should wish to go in a new suit of superfine black, with hat and beaver, mounted on a powerful steed, black and glossy, like that which bore Greduv to the fight of Catraeth. Here Borrow encamped and shod little Ambrol, who kicked him over as a reminder of his clumsiness.

Herbert George Jenkins - The Life of George Borrow

When I go into Wales, I should wish to go in a new suit of superfine black, with hat and beaver, mounted on a powerful steed, black and glossy, like that which bore Greduv to the fight of Catraeth.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

When I go into Wales, I should wish to go in a new suit of superfine black, with hat and beaver, mounted on a powerful steed, black and glossy, like that which bore Greduv to the fight of Catraeth.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest