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Updated: July 5, 2025
'I thought it began quite a week ago, and that we had had nights and nights of wassail bowls and old memories and Christmas-card cheerfulness. She gathered up her hair-pins and brushes and gave a yawn. 'If it is nearly twelve o'clock I suppose I ought to go, she said. 'I am not a bit sleepy, quoth Jane.
The time appointed was the night of Epiphany, upon occasion of which festival, it was thought that the inhabitants, overcome with sleep and wassail, might be easily overpowered. This person, apparently the only creature awake in the town, perceived the danger, ran shrieking through the streets, alarmed the citizens while it was yet time, and thus prevented the attack.
Yet he hoped to see her again; for each one fancies that his romance has its own tutelary guardian and divinity. Luckily for Remsen's peace of mind there came a diversion in the guise of a reunion of the Gentle Riders of the city. There were not many of them perhaps a score and there was wassail and things to eat, and speeches and the Spaniard was bearded again in recapitulation.
Pushing forward in that direction, the camp-fires soon broke on our sight, gleaming at a distance from among the thick groves of an alluvial bottom. As we entered the camp, we found it a scene of rude hunters' revelry and wassail. There had been a grand day's sport, in which all had taken a part.
When it reached Master Simon he raised it in both hands, and with the air of a boon companion struck up an old Wassail chanson: The browne bowle, The merry browne bowle, As it goes round about-a, Fill Still, Let the world say what it will, And drink your fill all out-a.
At the close of the evening the Lord Provost, who had been presiding, presented to the Beader a massive and ornate silver wassail bowl. Seventeen years prior to that, Charles Dickens had been publicly entertained in Edinburgh, Professor Wilson having been the chairman of the banquet given then in his honour.
The wind struck the Castle, and in the thick of the mists and flying leaves hurled at it, the donjon disappeared. "We win, we win, my men!" the Prince shouted. "Courage good spirit brave work treble wages! Wine and wassail to-morrow!" The boat, with the last word, shot into the little river, and up to the landing of the Castle just as the baffled wind burst over the refuge.
"Heed what my brother bids thee, Sexwolf," said Harold severely; "the hands that draw shafts against us to-morrow will not tremble with the night's wassail."
Shut out from the world, locked in with the sea, no neighbors, no visitors, no news, no gossip, solitary, shady, cool, and quiet, surely I can rest here. Forked tongues of scandal can not penetrate through those rock-ribbed hills yonder, nor dart across that defying sea; and neither wail nor wassail of men or women can disturb me more.
Now a certain trader invited us to an entertainment this night; so we went to his house and he set food before us and we ate: then we sat at wine and wassail with him for an hour or so when he gave us leave to depart; and we went out from him in the shadow of the night and, being strangers, we could not find our way back to our Khan.
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