That Night, After Tea, Henrietta Played On The Guitar The Old
Muleteer Tune Of "El Punto De La Vana," Or The Main Point At The
Havanna, Whilst I Sang The Words -
"Never trust the sample when you go your cloth to buy:
The woman's most deceitful that's dressed most daintily.
The
Lasses of Havanna ride to mass in coaches yellow,
But ere they go they ask if the priest's a handsome fellow.
The lasses of Havanna as mulberries are dark,
And try to make them fairer by taking Jesuit's bark."
CHAPTER LI
The Ladies of Llangollen - Sir Alured - Eisteddfodau - Pleasure and
Care.
SHORTLY after my return I paid a visit to my friends at the
Vicarage, who were rejoiced to see me back, and were much
entertained with the account I gave of my travels. I next went to
visit the old church clerk of whom I had so much to say on a former
occasion. After having told him some particulars of my expedition,
to all of which he listened with great attention, especially to
that part which related to the church of Penmynydd and the tomb of
the Tudors, I got him to talk about the ladies of Llangollen, of
whom I knew very little save what I had heard from general report.
I found he remembered their first coming to Llangollen, their
living in lodgings, their purchasing the ground called Pen y maes,
and their erecting upon it the mansion to which the name of Plas
Newydd was given.
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