Wells
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***** This file should be named 524-h. He had now reached the adjoining house, and, scaling the roof, approached
another building, which seemed to be, at least, one story loftier than its
neighbours. But threats and entreaties—even promises were ineffectual; and
the unlucky captive, after exhausting his powers of persuasion, was compelled to
give up the point. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by
various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape
with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of
widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a
linsey-woolsey shawl. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow.
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