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Here is an ancient hall, within four miles, with an old knightly Pantaloon for its lord an all-be-ruffed Dame Barbara for the lady gay a Jesuit, in a butler's habit, to say grace an old tale of Edgehill and Worster fights to relish a cold venison pasty, and a flask of claret mantled with cobwebs a bed for you in the priest's hiding-hole and, for aught I know, pretty Mistress Betty, the dairy-maid, to make it ready."
On a tomb in Ely, Cambridgeshire, there is an inscription saying that Richard Worster, buried there, died on May 11, 1856, the tomb being in memory of his 22 sons and 5 daughters. Artaxerxes was supposed to have had 106 children; Conrad, Duke of Moscow, 80; and in the polygamous countries the number seems incredible.
Thence walked to Westminster and eat a bit of bread and drank, and so to Worster House, and there staid, and saw the Council up, and then back, walked to the Cockepitt, and there took my leave of the Duke of Albemarle, who is going to-morrow to sea.
Then comes the evening. Knut Hamsun by W.W. Worster By W.W. Worster Knut Hamsun is now sixty. For years past he has been regarded as the greatest of living Norwegian writers, but he is still little known in England.
Thence walked to Westminster and eat a bit of bread and drank, and so to Worster House, and there staid, and saw the Council up, and then back, walked to the Cockepitt, and there took my leave of the Duke of Albemarle, who is going to-morrow to sea.
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