Senator Hoar will recall the scene from the railway below:
the
"Plots of cottage ground" that "lose themselves
'Mid groves and copses";
and he will say how exactly the words describe
These hedge-rows; hardly hedge-rows; little lines
Of sportive wood run wild,
for they cover yards in width in some places, as he will
remember my pointing out to him. The castle is placed on
the outside of the Forest and close on the Wye, to guard what
was seven centuries ago the frontier of Wales; and the late
William Philip Price (Commissioner of Railways and for many
years member of Parliament for Gloucester) told me that when
he was a boy the Welsh tongue was still spoken at Landogo,
the next village down the river, midway between Bigswear and
Tintern.
[Footnote]
* I suspect "Gaffer," the English equivalent of "Boss," may be
the same root: _i. e.,_ the _taker_ or contractor.
[End of Footnote]
Philip Baylis showed us some of the old parchments connected
with the Mine Court; one document especially precious being
a copy of the "Book of Denys," made in the time of Edward
III.
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