. The Ingoldsby legends : or, Mirth and marvels. s of Rapin and Hume,In recounting a miracle, both of them men who aGreat deal fall short of Jacques, Bishop of Genoa,An Historian who likes deeds like these to record—See his Aurea Legenda, by SHgnfefitt tl? SHorXl?, St. Dunstan stood again in his tower, Alembic, crucible, all complete;He had been standing a good half hour,And now he uttered the words of power. And called to his Broomstick to bring him a seat. The words of power!—and what be they To which een Broomsticks bow and obey? Why,—twere uncommonly hard to say. As the prelate I named has
. The Ingoldsby legends : or, Mirth and marvels. s of Rapin and Hume,In recounting a miracle, both of them men who aGreat deal fall short of Jacques, Bishop of Genoa,An Historian who likes deeds like these to record—See his Aurea Legenda, by SHgnfefitt tl? SHorXl?, St. Dunstan stood again in his tower, Alembic, crucible, all complete;He had been standing a good half hour,And now he uttered the words of power. And called to his Broomstick to bring him a seat. The words of power!—and what be they To which een Broomsticks bow and obey? Why,—twere uncommonly hard to say. As the prelate I named has recorded none of them. What they may be. But I know they are ABRACADABRA, I take it, is one of them: * St. Jingo, or Gengo (Gengulphus), sometimes styled The Living Jingo, from thegreat tenaciousness of vitality exhibited by his severed members. See his Legend, aarecorded hereafter in the present volume. 170 A LAY OF ST. DUNSTAN. For Im told that most Cabalists use that identicalWord, written thus, in what they call a However that be, Youll doubtless agreeIt signifies little to you or to me,As not being dabblers in Grammarye;Still, it must be confessed, for a Saint to repeatSuch language aloud is scarcely discreet;For, as Solomon hints to folks given to chatter, A bird of the air may carry the matter; And in sooth, From my youth, I remember a truthInsisted on much in my earlier wit, Little Pitchers have very long ears!Now, just such a Pitcher as those I allude toWas outside the door, which his ears appeared glued to. Peter, the Lay-brother, meagre and thin. Five feet one in his sandal shoon,While the Saint thought him listening and peeping. And watching his master the whole afternoon. A LAY OF ST. DUNSTAN. Ill This Peter the Saint had picked out from his fellows,To look to his fire, and to blow with the bellows,To put on the Walls-Ends and Lambtons whenever heChose to indulge in a little orfevrerie; —Of course you have read Th
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