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+THE TRUE LEGEND OF ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL
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+Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft
+
+by
+
+EDWARD G. FLIGHT.
+
+With Illustrations by George Cruikshank
+
+Engraved by John Thompson
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+Third Edition
+
+1871
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+PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+
+The success of the first edition of this little work, compels its author
+to say a few words on the issue of a second. "Expressive silence" would
+now be in him the excessive impudence of not acknowledging, as he
+respectfully does acknowledge, that success to be greatly ascribable to
+the eminent artists who have drawn and engraved the illustrations.
+
+"A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a
+generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no
+impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed,
+however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving
+pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even
+so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its
+obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation
+would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my _friend_
+would write a book!"
+
+In former days, possibly, things may have been very different from what
+they now are. Haply, the literary highway may, heretofore, have been not
+particularly clean, choked with rubbish, badly drained, ill lighted, not
+always well paved even with good intentions, and beset with dangerous
+characters, bilious-looking Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon,
+hocus, strangle, and pillage any new arrival. But all that is now
+changed. Now, the path of literature is all velvet and roses. The race
+of quacks and impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and
+the dodo; and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being
+tarred and feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united
+happy family"--of letters.
+
+Much of this agreeable change is owing to the improvement of the
+literary police, which is become a respectable, sober, well-conducted
+body of men, who seldom go on duty as critics, without a horse-shoe.
+Much is owing to the propagation of the doctrines of the Peace Society,
+even among that species of the _genus irritabile_, authors
+themselves, who have at last learned
+
+  "That brother should not war with brother,
+  And worry and devour each other;
+  But sing and shine by sweet consent,
+  Till life's poor transient night is spent."
+
+
+Chiefly, however, is the happy change attributable to the discriminating
+and impartial judgment of the reading public of this golden Victorian
+era. In the present day, it may be considered a general rule, that
+no picture is admired, no book pronounced readable, no magazine or
+newspaper circulated, unless in each case it develope intrinsic merit.
+The mere name of the artist, or author, or editor, has not the slightest
+weight with our present intelligent, discriminating community, who are
+never enslaved, or misled, by whim, caprice, or fashion. It has been
+said, but it seems too monstrous for belief, that, formerly, persons
+were actually to be found so extremely indolent, or stupid, or timid, as
+never to think for themselves; but who followed with the crowd, like a
+swarm of bees, to the brazen tinkle of a mere name! Happily, the minds
+of the present age are far too active, enlightened, independent, and
+fearless, for degradation so unworthy. In our day, the professed wit
+hopes not for the homage of a laugh, on his "only asking for the
+mustard;" the artist no longer trusts to his signature on the canvas for
+its being admired; no amount of previous authorship-celebrity preserves
+a book from the trunkmaker; and the newspaper-writer cannot expect an
+extensive sale, unless his leaders equal, at least, the frothy head of
+"Barclay's porter," or possess the Attic salt of "Fortnum and Mason's
+hams." At the same time, the proudest notable in literature can now no
+longer swamp, or thrust aside, his obscurer peers; nor is the humblest
+votive offering at the shrine of intellect, in danger, as formerly, from
+the hoofs of spurious priests, alike insensible to receive, and impotent
+to reflect or minister, light or warmth, from the sacred fire they
+pretend to cherish. In short, such is the pleasant change which has come
+over literary affairs, that, however apposite in past times, there is
+not, in the present, any fitness in the exclamation, "Oh, that mine
+enemy would write a book!"
+
+With reference to the observation, made by more than one correspondent,
+that the horse-shoe has not always proved an infallible charm against
+the devil, the author, deferentially, begs to hazard an opinion that, in
+every one of such cases, the supposed failure may have resulted from an
+adoption of something else than the real shoe, as a protection. Once
+upon a time, a witness very sensibly accounted for the plaintiff's horse
+having broken down. "'Twasn't the hoss's fault," said he; "his plates
+was wore so thin and so smooth, that, if he'd been Hal Brook[1] his
+self, he couldn't help slipping."
+
+[Footnote 1: Doubtless he meant Al Borak, the name of Mahomet's night
+mare.]
+
+"You mean," said the judge, "that the horse, instead of shoes, had
+merely slippers?"
+
+Peradventure, the alleged failures may be similarly accounted for;
+the party, in each case, having perhaps nailed up, not a shoe, but a
+slipper, the learned distinction respecting which was thus judicially
+recognised. The deed which the devil signed, must, like a penal statute,
+be construed strictly. It says nothing of a slipper; and it has been
+held by all our greatest lawyers, from Popham and Siderfin, down to
+Ambler and Walker, that a slipper is not a shoe.
+
+Another solution suggests itself. Possibly the horse-shoe, even if
+genuine, was not affixed until after the Wicked One had already got
+possession. In that case, not only would the charm be inefficacious
+to eject him, but would actually operate as a bar to his quitting the
+premises; for that eminent jurisconsult, Mephistopheles himself, has
+distinctly laid it down as "a law binding on devils, that they must go
+out the same way they stole in." Nailing up a shoe to keep the devil
+out, after he has once got in, is indeed too late; and is something like
+the literary pastime of the "Englishman," who kept on showing cause
+against the Frenchman's rule, long after the latter had, on the motion
+of his soldiers, already made it absolute with costs.
+
+There is one other circumstance the author begs to refer to, from a
+desire to dispel any uneasiness about our relations with the Yezidi
+government. The late distinguished under-secretary for foreign affairs,
+as every one knows, not regarding as _infra dig._ certain great, winged,
+human-headed bulls,[2] that would have astonished Mr. Edgeworth, not
+less than they puzzle all Smithfield, and the rest of the learned "whose
+speech is of oxen," has imported those extraordinary grand-junction
+specimens, which, with their countryfolk, the Yezidis, Dr. Layard has
+particularly described in his book on Nineveh. When speaking of the
+Yezidis, he has observed, "The name of the evil spirit is, however,
+never mentioned; and any allusion to it by others so vexes and irritates
+them, that it is said they have put to death persons who have wantonly
+outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread of offending
+the evil principle carried, that they carefully avoid every expression
+which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic word for
+'accursed.' Thus, in speaking of a river, they will not say _Shat_,
+because it is too nearly connected with the first syllable in _Sheitan_,
+the devil; but substitute _Nahr_. Nor, for the same reason, will they
+utter the word _Keitan_, thread or fringe. _Naal_, a horse-shoe, and
+_naal-band_, a farrier, are forbidden words; because they approach to
+_laan_, a curse, and _m[=a]loun_, accursed."--_Layard_, vol. i. p. 297.
+
+[Footnote 2: A sister countryman,--a bull is excusable when discoursing
+of bulls,--on seeing the monster at the Museum, exclaimed, "Faith! the
+great Dan himself couldn't repale _that_ union, at all, at all,
+_after_ 'twas once put together." Some suppose this bull to be
+typical of a foreign John Bull, the head representing the Crown, the
+fine feathers the Lords, and the rest the Commons.]
+
+Notwithstanding all this, the author has the pleasant satisfaction of
+most respectfully assuring his readers, on the authority of the last
+Yezidi _Moniteur_, that the amicable relations of this country with
+the Yezidi government are not in the slightest danger of being disturbed
+by this little book; and that John Bull is, at present, in no jeopardy
+of being swallowed up by those monstrous distant cousins of his, of whom
+Mr. Layard has brought home the above-mentioned speaking likenesses.
+
+1, Adam Street, Adelphi.
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+[Illustration]
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+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
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+[Illustration]
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+[Illustration]
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+"And it is for trouth reported, that where this signe dothe appere,
+there the Evill Spirite entreth not."--SERMON ON WITCHES.
+
+"Your wife's a witch, man; you should nail a horse-shoe on your
+chamber-door."--REDGAUNTLET.
+
+
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+[Illustration]
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+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
+
+
+  In days of yore, when saints were plenty,
+  (For each one now, you'd then find twenty,)
+      In Glaston's fruitful vale,
+  Saint Dunstan had his dwelling snug,
+  Warm as that inmate of a rug,
+      Named in no polished tale.
+
+  The holy man, when not employed
+  At prayers or meals, to work enjoyed
+      With anvil, forge, and sledge.
+  These he provided in his cell,
+  With saintly furniture as well;
+      So chroniclers allege.
+
+  The peaceful mattock, ploughshare, spade,
+  Sickle, and pruning-hook he made,
+      Eschewing martial labours.
+  Thus bees will rather honey bring,
+  Than hurtfully employ their sting
+      In warfare for their neighbours.
+
+  A cheerful saint too, oft would he
+  Mellow old Time with minstrelsy,--
+      But such as gave no scandal;
+  Than his was never harp more famed;
+  For Dunstan was the blacksmith named
+      Harmonious by Handel.
+
+  And when with tuneful voice he sang,
+  His well-strung harp's melodious twang
+      Accompaniment lending;
+  So sweetly wedded were the twain,
+  The chords flowed mingled with the strain,
+      Mellifluently blending.
+
+  Now 'tis well known mankind's great foe
+  Oft lurks and wanders to and fro,
+      In bailiwicks and shires;
+  Scattering broad-cast his mischief-seeds,
+  Planting the germs of wicked deeds,
+  Choking fair shoots with poisonous weeds,
+      Till goodness nigh expires.
+
+  Well, so it chanced, this tramping vagrant,
+  Intent on villanies most flagrant,
+      Ranged by Saint Dunstan's gate;
+  And hearing music so delicious,
+  Like hooded snake, his spleen malicious
+      Swelled up with envious hate.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  Thought Nick, I'll make his harp a fool;
+  I'll push him from his music-stool;
+      Then, skulking near the saint,
+  The vilest jars Nick loudly sounded,
+  Of brayings, neighings, screams compounded;
+  How the musician's ears were wounded,
+      Not Hogarth e'en could paint.
+
+  The devil fancied it rare fun.
+  "Well! don't you like my second, Dun?
+  Two parts sound better sure than one,"
+      Said he, with queer grimace:
+  "Come sing away, indeed you shall;
+  Strike up a spicy madrigal,
+      And hear me do the bass."
+
+  This chaffing Dunstan could not brook,
+  His clenched fist, his crabbed look
+      Betrayed his irritation.
+  'Twas nuts for Nick's derisive jaw,
+  Who fairly chuckled when he saw
+      The placid saint's vexation.
+
+  "_Au revoir_, friend, adieu till noon;
+  Just now you are rather out of tune,
+      Your visage is too sharp;
+  Your ear perhaps a trifle flat:
+  When I return, 'All round my hat'
+      We'll have upon the harp."
+
+  A tale, I know, has gone about,
+  That Dunstan twinged him by the snout
+      With pincers hotly glowing;
+  Levying, by _fieri facias_ tweak,
+  A diabolic screech and squeak,
+      No tender mercy showing.
+
+  But antiquarians the most curious
+  Reject that vulgar tale as spurious;
+      His reverence, say they,
+  Instead of giving nose a pull,
+  Resolved on vengeance just and full
+      Upon some future day.
+
+  Dunstan the saying called to mind,
+  "The devil through his paw behind
+  Alone shall penal torture find
+      From iron, lead, or steel."
+  Achilles thus had been eternal,
+  Thanks to his baptism infernal,
+      But for his mortal heel.
+
+  And so the saint, by wisdom guided,
+  To fix old Clootie's hoof decided
+      With horse-shoe of real metal,
+  And iron nails quite unmistakable;
+  For Dunstan, now become implacable,
+      Resolved Nick's hash to settle.
+
+  Satan, of this without forewarning,
+  Worse luck for him! the following morning,
+      With simper sauntered in;
+  Squinted at what the saint was doing,
+  But never smoked the mischief brewing,
+  Putting his foot in't; soon the shoeing
+      Did holy smith begin.
+
+  Oh! 'twas worth coin to see him seize
+  That ugly leg, and 'twixt his knees
+      Firmly the pastern grasp.
+  The shoe he tried on, burning hot,
+  His tools all handy he had got,
+      Hammer, and nails, and rasp.
+
+  A startled stare the devil lent,
+  Much wondering what St. Dunstan meant
+      This preluding to follow.
+  But the first nail from hammer's stroke
+  Full soon Nick's silent wonder broke,
+  For his shrill scream might then have woke
+      The sleepiest of Sleepy Hollow.
+
+  And distant Echo heard the sound
+  Vexing the hills for leagues around,
+      But answer would not render.
+  She may not thus her lips profane:
+  So Shadow, fearful of a stain,
+      Avoids the black offender.
+
+  The saint no pity had on Nick,
+  But drove long nails right through the quick;
+      Louder shrieked he, and faster.
+  Dunstan cared not; his bitter grin,
+  Without mistake, showed Father Sin
+      He had found a ruthless master.
+
+  And having driven, clenched, and filed,
+  The saint reviewed his work, and smiled
+      With cruel satisfaction;
+  And jeering said, "Pray, ere you go,
+  Dance me the _pas seul_ named 'Jim Crow,'
+      With your most graceful action."
+
+  To tell how Horny yelled and cried,
+  And all the artful tricks he tried,
+      To ease his tribulations,
+  Would more than fill a bigger book
+  Than ever author undertook,
+      Since the Book of Lamentations.
+
+  His tail's short, quick, convulsive coils
+  Told of more pain than all Job's boils,
+  When Satan brought, with subtle toils,
+      Job's patience to the scratch.
+  For sympathetic tortures spread
+  From hoof to tail, from tail to head:
+      All did the anguish catch.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  And yet, though seemed this sharp correction
+  Stereotyped in Satan's recollection,
+      As in his smarting hocks;
+  Not until he the following deed
+  Had signed and sealed, St. Dunstan freed
+      The vagabond from stocks.
+
+
+    TO ALL good folk in Christendom to whom this instrument
+    shall come the Devil sendeth greeting: KNOW YE that for
+    himself and heirs said Devil covenants and declares, that never
+    at morn or evening prayers at chapel church or meeting, never
+    where concords of sweet sound sacred or social flow around or
+    harmony is woo'd, nor where the Horse-Shoe meets his sight on
+    land or sea by day or night on lowly sill or lofty pinnacle on
+    bowsprit helm mast boom or binnacle, said Devil will intrude.
+
+
+  The horse-shoe now saves keel, and roof,
+  From visits of this rover's hoof,
+      The emblem seen preventing.
+  He recks the bond, but more the pain,
+  The nails went so against the grain,
+      The rasp was so tormenting.
+
+  He will not through Gran[=a]da march,
+  For there he knows the horse-shoe arch
+      At every gate attends him.
+  Nor partridges can he digest,
+  Since the dire horse-shoe on the breast
+      Most grievously offends him.
+
+  The name of Smith he cannot bear;
+  Smith Payne he'll curse, and foully swear
+      At Smith of Pennsylvania,
+  With looks so wild about the face;
+  Monro called in, pronounced the case
+      Clear antismithymania;
+
+  And duly certified that Nick
+  Should be confined as lunatic,
+      Fit subject for commission.
+  But who the deuce would like to be
+  The devil's person's committee?
+      So kindred won't petition.
+
+  Now, since the wicked fiend's at large,
+  Skippers, and housekeepers, I charge
+      You all to heed my warning.
+  Over your threshold, on your mast,
+  Be sure the horse-shoe's well nailed fast,
+      Protecting and adorning.
+
+
+[Illustration: "O, et praesidium, et dulce decus."--HOR Lib. i. Ode i.]
+
+
+  Here note, if humourists by trade
+  On waistcoat had the shoe displayed,
+  Lampoon's sour spirit might be laid,
+      And cease its spiteful railing.
+  Whether the humour chanced to be
+  Joke, pun, quaint ballad, repartee,
+  Slang, or bad spelling, we should see
+      Good humour still prevailing.
+
+  And oh! if Equity, as well
+  As Nisi Prius, would not sell
+      _Reason's perfection_ ever
+  To wrangling suitors _sans_ horse-shoe,
+  Lawyers would soon have nought to do,
+  Their subtle efforts ceasing too,
+      Reason from right to sever.
+
+  While Meux the symbol wears, _tant mieux_,
+  Repelling sinful aid to brew
+      His liquid strains XX;
+  Still, I advise, strong drinks beware,
+  No horse-shoe thwarts the devil there,
+      Or demon-mischief checks.
+
+  And let me rede you, Mr. Barry,
+  Not all your arms of John, Dick, Harry,
+      Plantagenet, or Tudor;
+  Nor your projections, or your niches,
+  Affluent of crowns and sculptile riches,
+      Will scare the foul intruder.
+
+  He'll care not for your harp a whistle,
+  Nor lion, horse, rose, shamrock, thistle,
+      Horn'd head, or _Honi soit_;
+  Nor puppy-griffs, though doubtless meant
+  Young senators to represent,
+      Like Samson, armed with jaw.
+
+  Only consult your sober senses,
+  And ponder well the consequences,
+      If in some moment evil,
+  The old sinner should take Speaker's chair,
+  Make Black Rod fetch the nobles there,
+      And with them play the devil!
+
+  Then do not fail, great architect,
+  Assembled wisdom to protect
+      From Satan's visitation.
+  With horse-shoe fortify each gate,
+  Each lion's paw; and then the State
+      Is safe from ruination.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+POSTSCRIPT.
+
+
+The courteous reader's indulgence will, it is hoped, extend to a waiver
+of all proofs and vouchers in demonstration of the authenticity of this
+tale, which is "simply told as it was told to me." Any one who can show
+that it is not the true tale, will greatly oblige, if he can and will a
+tale unfold, that _is_ the true one. If this is not the true story
+and history of the horse-shoe's charm against the wicked one, what
+_is_? That's the question.
+
+There's nothing like candour; and so it is here candidly and ingenuously
+confessed that the original deed mentioned in the poem, has hitherto
+eluded the most diligent searches and researches. As yet, it cannot be
+found, notwithstanding all the patient, zealous, and persevering efforts
+of learned men, erudite antiquarians, law and equity chiffonniers, who
+have poked and pored, in, through, over, and among, heaps, bundles,
+and collections, of old papers, vellums, parchments, deeds, muniments,
+documents, testaments, instruments, ingrossments, records, writings,
+indentures, deed polls, escrows, books, bills, rolls, charters,
+chirographs, and exemplifications, in old English, German text, black
+letter, red letter, round-hand, court-hand, Norman French, dog Latin,
+and law gibberish, occupying all sorts of old boxes, old bookcases, old
+chests, old cupboards, old desks, old drawers, old presses, and old
+shelves, belonging to the Dunstan branch of the old Smith family. At
+one moment, during the searches, it is true, hopes were excited on the
+perception of a faint brimstone odour issuing from an antiquated iron
+box found among some rubbish; but instead of any vellum or parchment,
+there were only the unused remains of some bundles of veteran matches,
+with their tinder-box accomplice, which had been thrown aside and
+forgotten, ever since the time when the functions of those old hardened
+incendiaries, flint and steel, were extinguished by the lucifers.
+All further search, it is feared, will be in vain; and the deed is now
+believed to be as irrecoverably lost, as the musty muster-roll of Battle
+Abbey.
+
+A legal friend has volunteered an opinion, that certain supposed defects
+in the alleged deed evince its spuriousness, and even if genuine, its
+inefficiency. His words are, "The absence of all legal consideration,
+that is to say, valuable consideration, such as money, or money's worth;
+or good consideration, such as natural love and affection, would render
+the deed void, or voidable, as a mere _nudum pactum_. [See
+_Plowden_.] Moreover, an objection arises from there being no
+_Anno Domini_, [_Year Book, Temp. Ric. III._] and no _Anno Regni_,
+[_Croke Eliz._] and no condition _in poenam_. [_Lib. Ass._] Now,
+if the original deed had been thus defective, the covenanting party
+thereto is too good a lawyer, not to have set it aside."
+
+To these learned subtleties it may be answered, that the deed was
+evidently intended, not so much as an instrument effectively binding
+"the covenanting party," as a record whereby to justify a renewal
+of punishment, in case of contravention of any of the articles of
+treaty. It would have been informal to make mention of money as the
+consideration, it being patent that this "covenanting party" considers
+it of no value at all. For however dearly all "good folk in Christendom"
+may estimate and hug the precious bane, as the most valuable
+consideration on earth, he, old sinner that he is, wickedly disparages
+it, as being mere filthy lucre, only useful horticulturally, to manure
+his hot-beds of iniquity. With regard to the consideration of natural
+love and affection, it is humbly submitted that the facts are at
+variance with such a suggestion.
+
+Another friend, not of the legal, but the equestrian order, has
+tendered, according to his ideas, an explanation of the especial
+protecting virtue of the horseshoe. His notions are given as follows,
+_ipsissimis verbis_. "There is not in the whole world, a nobler
+animal than that splendid fellow, the horse. He is the embodiment of all
+that is magnificent, possessing strength, swiftness, courage, sagacity,
+and gracefulness. He never drinks more than he needs, or says more
+than he ought. If he were an opposition M.P.--and a horse was once a
+consul--his speech against Government bills, would be only a dignified
+neigh. Base and unworthy measures he disdains.
+
+
+  "Who ever knew this honest brute
+  At law his neighbour prosecute;
+  Bring action for assault and battery,
+  Or friend beguile with lies and flattery?
+
+
+"His proud step is on all fours with his love of a fair field and no
+favour. The grandeur of his nature is such, that the idea of a beggar
+on horseback is proverbially the most revolting of all inequitable
+absurdities and incongruities in human economy; while, on the other
+hand, as was once well remarked by a distinguished lecturer, this superb
+animal stamped his very name itself on that for which our loftiest
+princes and nobles, before the present degenerate age of iron, were
+emulous of distinguishing themselves. In proportion as they developed
+unblemished honour, with undaunted bravery, graceful bearing, and
+magnanimous generosity, were they deemed worthy to rank among
+Christendom's bright chivalry.
+
+"The horse-shoe was, no doubt, regarded as typical of the noble
+qualities of its wearer. These being so hateful to the ugly, sly,
+intriguing, slandering, malevolent, ill-conditioned, pettifogging,
+pitiful arch-enemy, it might well be supposed that the mere apparition
+of that type would scare him away. To this supposition is ascribable the
+adoption of the horse-shoe, as an infallible charm against the visits of
+old Iniquity."
+
+But mere "supposition" is no answer to the question above propounded.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An acknowledgment is due, and is hereby offered, to the unknown
+correspondent, who has obligingly communicated the following copy of the
+coat of arms of the Dunstan family.
+
+"Azure, on a chevron gules between three harps, a horse-shoe supported
+by two pairs of pincers, proper. _Crest_--An arm embowed, couped
+at the shoulder, the hand grasping a hammer, all proper.
+_Motto_--'SARUED HYM RIGHTE.'"
+
+[Illustration: SAREUD HYM RIGHTE]
+
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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13978 ***</div>
+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil,
+by Edward G. Flight, Illustrated by George Cruikshank</h1>
+<hr class="full" />
+<div style="height: 2em;"><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/horse-1.png"><img src="images/horse-1.png" width="60%"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h1>
+THE HORSE SHOE
+</h1>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    THE TRUE LEGEND OF
+<br />
+    ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL;
+</h2>
+<h3>
+SHOWING HOW THE HORSE-SHOE CAME TO BE A CHARM AGAINST WITCHCRAFT.
+</h3>
+<center><b>
+BY EDWARD G. FLIGHT.
+</b>
+</center>
+<center>
+WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
+<br />
+BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,
+</center>
+<center>
+ENGRAVED BY JOHN THOMPSON.
+</center>
+
+<center><img src="images/horse-2.png" alt="" /></center>
+
+<center>
+<i>THIRD EDITION</i>.
+</center>
+<center>
+LONDON:
+<!-- BELL AND DALDY, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN. -->
+<br />
+1871.
+</center>
+
+<!--
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+CHISWICK PRESS:&mdash;PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS,
+<br />
+TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
+</center>
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+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="80%" src="images/horse-3.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+    PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
+</h2>
+<p style="text-indent: -2em;">
+<img width="75" height="75" src="images/cap-t.png" alt="T" style="float: left; margin-right: 2em;" />
+HE success of the first edition of this little work, compels its author
+to say a few words on the issue of a second. "Expressive silence" would
+now be in him the excessive impudence of not acknowledging, as he
+respectfully does acknowledge, that success to be greatly ascribable to
+the eminent artists who have drawn and engraved the illustrations.
+</p>
+<p>
+"A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a
+generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no
+impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed,
+however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving
+pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even
+so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its
+obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation
+would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my <i>friend</i>
+would write a book!"
+</p>
+<p>
+In former days, possibly, things may have been very different from what
+they now are. Haply, the literary highway may, heretofore, have been not
+particularly clean, choked with rubbish, badly drained, ill lighted, not
+always well paved even with good intentions, and beset with dangerous
+characters, bilious-looking Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon,
+hocus, strangle, and pillage any new arrival. But all that is now
+changed. Now, the path of literature is all velvet and roses. The race
+of quacks and impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and
+the dodo; and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being
+tarred and feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united
+happy family"&mdash;of letters.
+</p>
+<p>
+Much of this agreeable change is owing to the improvement of the
+literary police, which is become a respectable, sober, well-conducted
+body of men, who seldom go on duty as critics, without a horse-shoe.
+Much is owing to the propagation of the doctrines of the Peace Society,
+even among that species of the <i>genus irritabile</i>, authors
+themselves, who have at last learned
+</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "That brother should not war with brother</p>
+<p class="i2">   And worry and devour each other;</p>
+<p class="i2">   But sing and shine by sweet consent</p>
+<p class="i2">   Till life's poor transient night is spent."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Chiefly, however, is the happy change attributable to the discriminating
+and impartial judgment of the reading public of this golden Victorian
+era. In the present day, it may be considered a general rule, that
+no picture is admired, no book pronounced readable, no magazine or
+newspaper circulated, unless in each case it develope intrinsic merit.
+The mere name of the artist, or author, or editor, has not the slightest
+weight with our present intelligent, discriminating community, who are
+never enslaved, or misled, by whim, caprice, or fashion. It has been
+said, but it seems too monstrous for belief, that, formerly, persons
+were actually to be found so extremely indolent, or stupid, or timid, as
+never to think for themselves; but who followed with the crowd, like a
+swarm of bees, to the brazen tinkle of a mere name! Happily, the minds
+of the present age are far too active, enlightened, independent, and
+fearless, for degradation so unworthy. In our day, the professed wit
+hopes not for the homage of a laugh, on his "only asking for the
+mustard;" the artist no longer trusts to his signature on the canvas for
+its being admired; no amount of previous authorship-celebrity preserves
+a book from the trunkmaker; and the newspaper-writer cannot expect an
+extensive sale, unless his leaders equal, at least, the frothy head of
+"Barclay's porter," or possess the Attic salt of "Fortnum and Mason's
+hams." At the same time, the proudest notable in literature can now no
+longer swamp, or thrust aside, his obscurer peers; nor is the humblest
+votive offering at the shrine of intellect, in danger, as formerly, from
+the hoofs of spurious priests, alike insensible to receive, and impotent
+to reflect or minister, light or warmth, from the sacred fire they
+pretend to cherish. In short, such is the pleasant change which has come
+over literary affairs, that, however apposite in past times, there is
+not, in the present, any fitness in the exclamation, "Oh, that mine
+enemy would write a book!"
+</p>
+<p>
+With reference to the observation, made by more than one correspondent,
+that the horse-shoe has not always proved an infallible charm against
+the devil, the author, deferentially, begs to hazard an opinion that, in
+every one of such cases, the supposed failure may have resulted from an
+adoption of something else than the real shoe, as a protection. Once
+upon a time, a witness very sensibly accounted for the plaintiff's horse
+having broken down. "'Twasn't the hoss's fault," said he; "his plates
+was wore so thin and so smooth, that, if he'd been Hal Brook<a href="#note-1" name="noteref-1"><small>1</small></a> his
+self, he couldn't help slipping."
+</p>
+<p>
+"You mean," said the judge, "that the horse, instead of shoes, had
+merely slippers?"
+</p>
+<p>
+Peradventure, the alleged failures may be similarly accounted for;
+the party, in each case, having perhaps nailed up, not a shoe, but a
+slipper, the learned distinction respecting which was thus judicially
+recognised. The deed which the devil signed, must, like a penal statute,
+be construed strictly. It says nothing of a slipper; and it has been
+held by all our greatest lawyers, from Popham and Siderfin, down to
+Ambler and Walker, that a slipper is not a shoe.
+</p>
+<p>
+Another solution suggests itself. Possibly the horse-shoe, even if
+genuine, was not affixed until after the Wicked One had already got
+possession. In that case, not only would the charm be inefficacious
+to eject him, but would actually operate as a bar to his quitting the
+premises; for that eminent jurisconsult, Mephistopheles himself, has
+distinctly laid it down as "a law binding on devils, that they must go
+out the same way they stole in." Nailing up a shoe to keep the devil
+out, after he has once got in, is indeed too late; and is something like
+the literary pastime of the "Englishman," who kept on showing cause
+against the Frenchman's rule, long after the latter had, on the motion
+of his soldiers, already made it absolute with costs.
+</p>
+<p>
+There is one other circumstance the author begs to refer to, from a
+desire to dispel any uneasiness about our relations with the Yezidi
+government. The late distinguished under-secretary for foreign affairs,
+as every one knows, not regarding as <i>infra dig.</i> certain great,
+winged, human-headed bulls,<a href="#note-2" name="noteref-2"><small>2</small></a> that would have astonished Mr. Edgeworth,
+not less than they puzzle all Smithfield, and the rest of the learned
+"whose speech is of oxen," has imported those extraordinary
+grand-junction specimens, which, with their countryfolk, the Yezidis,
+Dr. Layard has particularly described in his book on Nineveh. When
+speaking of the Yezidis, he has observed, "The name of the evil spirit
+is, however, never mentioned; and any allusion to it by others so vexes
+and irritates them, that it is said they have put to death persons who
+have wantonly outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread
+of offending the evil principle carried, that they carefully avoid every
+expression which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic
+word for 'accursed.' Thus, in speaking of a river, they will not say
+<i>Shat</i>, because it is too nearly connected with the first syllable
+in <i>Sheitan</i>, the devil; but substitute <i>Nahr</i>. Nor, for the
+same reason, will they utter the word <i>Keitan</i>, thread or fringe.
+<i>Naal</i>, a horse-shoe, and <i>naal-band</i>, a farrier, are forbidden words;
+because they approach to <i>laan</i>, a curse, and <i>m&#257;loun</i>, accursed."&mdash;<i>Layard</i>,
+vol. i. p. 297.
+</p>
+<p>
+Notwithstanding all this, the author has the pleasant satisfaction of
+most respectfully assuring his readers, on the authority of the last
+Yezidi <i>Moniteur</i>, that the amicable relations of this country with
+the Yezidi government are not in the slightest danger of being disturbed
+by this little book; and that John Bull is, at present, in no jeopardy
+of being swallowed up by those monstrous distant cousins of his, of whom
+Mr. Layard has brought home the above-mentioned speaking likenesses.
+</p>
+<p class="r">
+1, Adam Street, Adelphi.
+</p>
+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img src="images/horse-4.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
+</h2>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img src="images/horse-5.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/horse-6.png"><img src="images/horse-6.png"
+alt="" width="60%" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class="quote">
+"And it is for trouth reported, that where this signe dothe appere,
+there the Evill Spirite entreth not."&mdash;SERMON ON WITCHES.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+"Your wife's a witch, man; you should nail a horse-shoe on your
+chamber-door."&mdash;REDGAUNTLET.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="80%" src="images/horse-7.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
+</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p style="text-indent: -2em; margin-left: -3em;">
+<img width="75" height="75" src="images/cap-i.png" alt="I" style="float: left; margin-right: 2em;" />
+N days of yore, when saints were plenty</p>
+<p class="i6">   (For each one now, you'd then find twenty,)</p>
+<p class="i10">       In Glaston's fruitful vale</p>
+<p class="i6">   Saint Dunstan had his dwelling snug</p>
+<p class="i6">   Warm as that inmate of a rug</p>
+<p class="i10">       Named in no polished tale</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The holy man, when not employed</p>
+<p class="i2">   At prayers or meals, to work enjoyed</p>
+<p class="i6">       With anvil, forge, and sledge</p>
+<p class="i2">   These he provided in his cell</p>
+<p class="i2">   With saintly furniture as well;</p>
+<p class="i6">       So chroniclers allege</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The peaceful mattock, ploughshare, spade</p>
+<p class="i2">   Sickle, and pruning-hook he made</p>
+<p class="i6">       Eschewing martial labours</p>
+<p class="i2">   Thus bees will rather honey bring</p>
+<p class="i2">   Than hurtfully employ their sting</p>
+<p class="i6">       In warfare for their neighbours</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   A cheerful saint too, oft would he</p>
+<p class="i2">   Mellow old Time with minstrelsy,&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i6">       But such as gave no scandal;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Than his was never harp more famed;</p>
+<p class="i2">   For Dunstan was the blacksmith named</p>
+<p class="i6">       Harmonious by Handel</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And when with tuneful voice he sang</p>
+<p class="i2">   His well-strung harp's melodious twang</p>
+<p class="i6">       Accompaniment lending;</p>
+<p class="i2">   So sweetly wedded were the twain</p>
+<p class="i2">   The chords flowed mingled with the strain</p>
+<p class="i6">       Mellifluently blending</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Now 'tis well known mankind's great foe</p>
+<p class="i2">   Oft lurks and wanders to and fro</p>
+<p class="i6">       In bailiwicks and shires;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Scattering broad-cast his mischief-seeds</p>
+<p class="i2">   Planting the germs of wicked deeds</p>
+<p class="i2">   Choking fair shoots with poisonous weeds</p>
+<p class="i6">       Till goodness nigh expires</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Well, so it chanced, this tramping vagrant</p>
+<p class="i2">   Intent on villanies most flagrant</p>
+<p class="i6">       Ranged by Saint Dunstan's gate;</p>
+<p class="i2">   And hearing music so delicious</p>
+<p class="i2">   Like hooded snake, his spleen malicious</p>
+<p class="i6">       Swelled up with envious hate</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/illus-003.png"><img width="100%" src="images/illus-003.png"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Thought Nick, I'll make his harp a fool;</p>
+<p class="i2">   I'll push him from his music-stool;</p>
+<p class="i6">       Then, skulking near the saint</p>
+<p class="i2">   The vilest jars Nick loudly sounded</p>
+<p class="i2">   Of brayings, neighings, screams compounded;</p>
+<p class="i2">   How the musician's ears were wounded</p>
+<p class="i6">       Not Hogarth e'en could paint</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The devil fancied it rare fun</p>
+<p class="i2">   "Well! don't you like my second, Dun?</p>
+<p class="i2">   Two parts sound better sure than one,"</p>
+<p class="i6">       Said he, with queer grimace:</p>
+<p class="i2">   "Come sing away, indeed you shall;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Strike up a spicy madrigal</p>
+<p class="i6">       And hear me do the bass."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   This chaffing Dunstan could not brook</p>
+<p class="i2">   His clenched fist, his crabbed look</p>
+<p class="i6">       Betrayed his irritation</p>
+<p class="i2">   'Twas nuts for Nick's derisive jaw</p>
+<p class="i2">   Who fairly chuckled when he saw</p>
+<p class="i6">       The placid saint's vexation</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "<i>Au revoir</i>, friend, adieu till noon;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Just now you are rather out of tune</p>
+<p class="i6">       Your visage is too sharp;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Your ear perhaps a trifle flat:</p>
+<p class="i2">   When I return, 'All round my hat'</p>
+<p class="i6">       We'll have upon the harp."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   A tale, I know, has gone about</p>
+<p class="i2">   That Dunstan twinged him by the snout</p>
+<p class="i6">       With pincers hotly glowing;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Levying, by <i>fieri facias</i> tweak</p>
+<p class="i2">   A diabolic screech and squeak</p>
+<p class="i6">       No tender mercy showing</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   But antiquarians the most curious</p>
+<p class="i2">   Reject that vulgar tale as spurious;</p>
+<p class="i6">       His reverence, say they</p>
+<p class="i2">   Instead of giving nose a pull</p>
+<p class="i2">   Resolved on vengeance just and full</p>
+<p class="i6">       Upon some future day</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Dunstan the saying called to mind</p>
+<p class="i2">   "The devil through his paw behind</p>
+<p class="i2">   Alone shall penal torture find</p>
+<p class="i6">       From iron, lead, or steel."</p>
+<p class="i2">   Achilles thus had been eternal</p>
+<p class="i2">   Thanks to his baptism infernal</p>
+<p class="i6">       But for his mortal heel</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And so the saint, by wisdom guided</p>
+<p class="i2">   To fix old Clootie's hoof decided</p>
+<p class="i6">       With horse-shoe of real metal</p>
+<p class="i2">   And iron nails quite unmistakable;</p>
+<p class="i2">   For Dunstan, now become implacable</p>
+<p class="i6">       Resolved Nick's hash to settle</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Satan, of this without forewarning</p>
+<p class="i2">   Worse luck for him! the following morning</p>
+<p class="i6">       With simper sauntered in;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Squinted at what the saint was doing</p>
+<p class="i2">   But never smoked the mischief brewing</p>
+<p class="i2">   Putting his foot in't; soon the shoeing</p>
+<p class="i6">       Did holy smith begin</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Oh! 'twas worth coin to see him seize</p>
+<p class="i2">   That ugly leg, and 'twixt his knees</p>
+<p class="i6">       Firmly the pastern grasp</p>
+<p class="i2">   The shoe he tried on, burning hot</p>
+<p class="i2">   His tools all handy he had got</p>
+<p class="i6">       Hammer, and nails, and rasp</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   A startled stare the devil lent</p>
+<p class="i2">   Much wondering what St. Dunstan meant</p>
+<p class="i6">       This preluding to follow</p>
+<p class="i2">   But the first nail from hammer's stroke</p>
+<p class="i2">   Full soon Nick's silent wonder broke</p>
+<p class="i2">   For his shrill scream might then have woke</p>
+<p class="i6">       The sleepiest of Sleepy Hollow</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And distant Echo heard the sound</p>
+<p class="i2">   Vexing the hills for leagues around</p>
+<p class="i6">       But answer would not render</p>
+<p class="i2">   She may not thus her lips profane:</p>
+<p class="i2">   So Shadow, fearful of a stain</p>
+<p class="i6">       Avoids the black offender</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The saint no pity had on Nick</p>
+<p class="i2">   But drove long nails right through the quick;</p>
+<p class="i6">       Louder shrieked he, and faster</p>
+<p class="i2">   Dunstan cared not; his bitter grin</p>
+<p class="i2">   Without mistake, showed Father Sin</p>
+<p class="i6">       He had found a ruthless master</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And having driven, clenched, and filed</p>
+<p class="i2">   The saint reviewed his work, and smiled</p>
+<p class="i6">       With cruel satisfaction;</p>
+<p class="i2">   And jeering said, "Pray, ere you go</p>
+<p class="i2">   Dance me the <i>pas seul</i> named 'Jim Crow,'</p>
+<p class="i6">       With your most graceful action."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   To tell how Horny yelled and cried</p>
+<p class="i2">   And all the artful tricks he tried</p>
+<p class="i6">       To ease his tribulations</p>
+<p class="i2">   Would more than fill a bigger book</p>
+<p class="i2">   Than ever author undertook</p>
+<p class="i6">       Since the Book of Lamentations</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   His tail's short, quick, convulsive coils</p>
+<p class="i2">   Told of more pain than all Job's boils</p>
+<p class="i2">   When Satan brought, with subtle toils</p>
+<p class="i6">       Job's patience to the scratch</p>
+<p class="i2">   For sympathetic tortures spread</p>
+<p class="i2">   From hoof to tail, from tail to head:</p>
+<p class="i6">       All did the anguish catch</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/illus-004.png"><img width="100%" src="images/illus-004.png"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And yet, though seemed this sharp correction</p>
+<p class="i2">   Stereotyped in Satan's recollection</p>
+<p class="i6">       As in his smarting hocks;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Not until he the following deed</p>
+<p class="i2">   Had signed and sealed, St. Dunstan freed</p>
+<p class="i6">       The vagabond from stocks</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="quote">
+    <b>To all</b> good folk in Christendom to whom this instrument
+    shall come the Devil sendeth greeting: <b>Know ye</b> that for
+    himself and heirs said Devil covenants and declares, that never
+    at morn or evening prayers at chapel church or meeting, never
+    where concords of sweet sound sacred or social flow around or
+    harmony is woo'd, nor where the Horse-Shoe meets his sight on
+    land or sea by day or night on lowly sill or lofty pinnacle on
+    bowsprit helm mast boom or binnacle, said Devil will intrude.
+</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The horse-shoe now saves keel, and roof</p>
+<p class="i2">   From visits of this rover's hoof</p>
+<p class="i6">       The emblem seen preventing</p>
+<p class="i2">   He recks the bond, but more the pain</p>
+<p class="i2">   The nails went so against the grain</p>
+<p class="i6">       The rasp was so tormenting</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   He will not through Gran&#257;da march</p>
+<p class="i2">   For there he knows the horse-shoe arch</p>
+<p class="i6">       At every gate attends him</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor partridges can he digest</p>
+<p class="i2">   Since the dire horse-shoe on the breast</p>
+<p class="i6">       Most grievously offends him</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The name of Smith he cannot bear;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Smith Payne he'll curse, and foully swear</p>
+<p class="i6">       At Smith of Pennsylvania</p>
+<p class="i2">   With looks so wild about the face;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Monro called in, pronounced the case</p>
+<p class="i6">       Clear antismithymania;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And duly certified that Nick</p>
+<p class="i2">   Should be confined as lunatic</p>
+<p class="i6">       Fit subject for commission</p>
+<p class="i2">   But who the deuce would like to be</p>
+<p class="i2">   The devil's person's committee?</p>
+<p class="i6">       So kindred won't petition</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Now, since the wicked fiend's at large</p>
+<p class="i2">   Skippers, and housekeepers, I charge</p>
+<p class="i6">       You all to heed my warning</p>
+<p class="i2">   Over your threshold, on your mast</p>
+<p class="i2">   Be sure the horse-shoe's well nailed fast</p>
+<p class="i6">       Protecting and adorning</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/illus-005.png"><img width="100%" src="images/illus-005.png"
+alt="'O, et Praesidium, Et Dulce Decus.'--Hor Lib. I. Ode I." />
+</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Here note, if humourists by trade</p>
+<p class="i2">   On waistcoat had the shoe displayed</p>
+<p class="i2">   Lampoon's sour spirit might be laid</p>
+<p class="i6">       And cease its spiteful railing</p>
+<p class="i2">   Whether the humour chanced to be</p>
+<p class="i2">   Joke, pun, quaint ballad, repartee</p>
+<p class="i2">   Slang, or bad spelling, we should see</p>
+<p class="i6">       Good humour still prevailing</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And oh! if Equity, as well</p>
+<p class="i2">   As Nisi Prius, would not sell</p>
+<p class="i6">       <i>Reason's perfection</i> ever</p>
+<p class="i2">   To wrangling suitors <i>sans</i> horse-shoe</p>
+<p class="i2">   Lawyers would soon have nought to do</p>
+<p class="i2">   Their subtle efforts ceasing too</p>
+<p class="i6">       Reason from right to sever</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   While Meux the symbol wears, <i>tant mieux</i></p>
+<p class="i2">   Repelling sinful aid to brew</p>
+<p class="i6">       His liquid strains XX;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Still, I advise, strong drinks beware</p>
+<p class="i2">   No horse-shoe thwarts the devil there</p>
+<p class="i6">       Or demon-mischief checks</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And let me rede you, Mr. Barry</p>
+<p class="i2">   Not all your arms of John, Dick, Harry</p>
+<p class="i6">       Plantagenet, or Tudor;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor your projections, or your niches</p>
+<p class="i2">   Affluent of crowns and sculptile riches</p>
+<p class="i6">       Will scare the foul intruder</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   He'll care not for your harp a whistle</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor lion, horse, rose, shamrock, thistle</p>
+<p class="i6">       Horn'd head, or <i>Honi soit</i>;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor puppy-griffs, though doubtless meant</p>
+<p class="i2">   Young senators to represent</p>
+<p class="i6">       Like Samson, armed with jaw</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Only consult your sober senses</p>
+<p class="i2">   And ponder well the consequences</p>
+<p class="i6">       If in some moment evil</p>
+<p class="i2">   The old sinner should take Speaker's chair</p>
+<p class="i2">   Make Black Rod fetch the nobles there</p>
+<p class="i6">       And with them play the devil!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Then do not fail, great architect</p>
+<p class="i2">   Assembled wisdom to protect</p>
+<p class="i6">       From Satan's visitation</p>
+<p class="i2">   With horse-shoe fortify each gate</p>
+<p class="i2">   Each lion's paw; and then the State</p>
+<p class="i6">       Is safe from ruination</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="100%" src="images/horse-10.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="80%" src="images/horse-11.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+    POSTSCRIPT.
+</h2>
+
+<p style="text-indent: -2em;">
+<img width="75" height="75" src="images/cap-t.png" alt="T" style="float: left; margin-right: 2em;" />
+HE courteous reader's indulgence will, it is hoped, extend to a waiver
+of all proofs and vouchers in demonstration of the authenticity of this
+tale, which is "simply told as it was told to me." Any one who can show
+that it is not the true tale, will greatly oblige, if he can and will a
+tale unfold, that <i>is</i> the true one. If this is not the true story
+and history of the horse-shoe's charm against the wicked one, what
+<i>is</i>? That's the question.
+</p>
+<p>
+There's nothing like candour; and so it is here candidly and ingenuously
+confessed that the original deed mentioned in the poem, has hitherto
+eluded the most diligent searches and researches. As yet, it cannot be
+found, notwithstanding all the patient, zealous, and persevering efforts
+of learned men, erudite antiquarians, law and equity chiffonniers, who
+have poked and pored, in, through, over, and among, heaps, bundles,
+and collections, of old papers, vellums, parchments, deeds, muniments,
+documents, testaments, instruments, ingrossments, records, writings,
+indentures, deed polls, escrows, books, bills, rolls, charters,
+chirographs, and exemplifications, in old English, German text, black
+letter, red letter, round-hand, court-hand, Norman French, dog Latin,
+and law gibberish, occupying all sorts of old boxes, old bookcases, old
+chests, old cupboards, old desks, old drawers, old presses, and old
+shelves, belonging to the Dunstan branch of the old Smith family. At
+one moment, during the searches, it is true, hopes were excited on the
+perception of a faint brimstone odour issuing from an antiquated iron
+box found among some rubbish; but instead of any vellum or parchment,
+there were only the unused remains of some bundles of veteran matches,
+with their tinder-box accomplice, which had been thrown aside and
+forgotten, ever since the time when the functions of those old hardened
+incendiaries, flint and steel, were extinguished by the lucifers.
+All further search, it is feared, will be in vain; and the deed is now
+believed to be as irrecoverably lost, as the musty muster-roll of Battle
+Abbey.
+</p>
+<p>
+A legal friend has volunteered an opinion, that certain supposed defects
+in the alleged deed evince its spuriousness, and even if genuine, its
+inefficiency. His words are, "The absence of all legal consideration,
+that is to say, valuable consideration, such as money, or money's worth;
+or good consideration, such as natural love and affection, would render
+the deed void, or voidable, as a mere <i>nudum pactum</i>. [See
+<i>Plowden</i>.] Moreover, an objection arises from there being no
+<i>Anno Domini</i>, [<i>Year Book, Temp. Ric. III.</i>] and no <i>Anno Regni</i>,
+[<i>Croke Eliz.</i>] and no condition <i>in p&oelig;nam</i>. [<i>Lib. Ass.</i>] Now,
+if the original deed had been thus defective, the covenanting party
+thereto is too good a lawyer, not to have set it aside."
+</p>
+<p>
+To these learned subtleties it may be answered, that the deed was
+evidently intended, not so much as an instrument effectively binding
+"the covenanting party," as a record whereby to justify a renewal
+of punishment, in case of contravention of any of the articles of
+treaty. It would have been informal to make mention of money as the
+consideration, it being patent that this "covenanting party" considers
+it of no value at all. For however dearly all "good folk in Christendom"
+may estimate and hug the precious bane, as the most valuable
+consideration on earth, he, old sinner that he is, wickedly disparages
+it, as being mere filthy lucre, only useful horticulturally, to manure
+his hot-beds of iniquity. With regard to the consideration of natural
+love and affection, it is humbly submitted that the facts are at
+variance with such a suggestion.
+</p>
+<p>
+Another friend, not of the legal, but the equestrian order, has
+tendered, according to his ideas, an explanation of the especial
+protecting virtue of the horseshoe. His notions are given as follows,
+<i>ipsissimis verbis</i>. "There is not in the whole world, a nobler
+animal than that splendid fellow, the horse. He is the embodiment of all
+that is magnificent, possessing strength, swiftness, courage, sagacity,
+and gracefulness. He never drinks more than he needs, or says more
+than he ought. If he were an opposition M.P.&mdash;and a horse was once a
+consul&mdash;his speech against Government bills, would be only a dignified
+neigh. Base and unworthy measures he disdains.
+</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Who ever knew this honest brute</p>
+<p class="i2">   At law his neighbour prosecute;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Bring action for assault and battery</p>
+<p class="i2">   Or friend beguile with lies and flattery?</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+"His proud step is on all fours with his love of a fair field and no
+favour. The grandeur of his nature is such, that the idea of a beggar
+on horseback is proverbially the most revolting of all inequitable
+absurdities and incongruities in human economy; while, on the other
+hand, as was once well remarked by a distinguished lecturer, this superb
+animal stamped his very name itself on that for which our loftiest
+princes and nobles, before the present degenerate age of iron, were
+emulous of distinguishing themselves. In proportion as they developed
+unblemished honour, with undaunted bravery, graceful bearing, and
+magnanimous generosity, were they deemed worthy to rank among
+Christendom's bright chivalry.
+</p>
+<p>
+"The horse-shoe was, no doubt, regarded as typical of the noble
+qualities of its wearer. These being so hateful to the ugly, sly,
+intriguing, slandering, malevolent, ill-conditioned, pettifogging,
+pitiful arch-enemy, it might well be supposed that the mere apparition
+of that type would scare him away. To this supposition is ascribable the
+adoption of the horse-shoe, as an infallible charm against the visits of
+old Iniquity."
+</p>
+<p>
+But mere "supposition" is no answer to the question above propounded.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+An acknowledgment is due, and is hereby offered, to the unknown
+correspondent, who has obligingly communicated the following copy of the
+coat of arms of the Dunstan family.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Azure, on a chevron gules between three harps, a horse-shoe supported
+by two pairs of pincers, proper. <i>Crest</i>&mdash;An arm embowed, couped
+at the shoulder, the hand grasping a hammer, all proper.
+<i>Motto</i>&mdash;'SARUED HYM RIGHTE.'"
+</p>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/coatarms.png"><img width="60%" src="images/coatarms.png"
+alt="Sareud Hym Righte" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Footnotes</h2>
+
+<a name="note-1"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>1</u> (<a href="#noteref-1">return</a>)<br />
+Doubtless he meant Al Borak, the name of Mahomet's night
+mare.
+</p>
+<a name="note-2"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>2</u> (<a href="#noteref-2">return</a>)<br />
+A sister countryman,&mdash;a bull is excusable when discoursing
+of bulls,&mdash;on seeing the monster at the Museum, exclaimed, "Faith! the
+great Dan himself couldn't repale <i>that</i> union, at all, at all,
+<i>after</i> 'twas once put together." Some suppose this bull to be
+typical of a foreign John Bull, the head representing the Crown, the
+fine feathers the Lords, and the rest the Commons.
+</p>
+
+<br />
+<br />
+<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13978 ***</div>
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil,
+by Edward G. Flight, Illustrated by George Cruikshank</h1>
+<pre>
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+<p>Title: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil</p>
+<p>Author: Edward G. Flight</p>
+<p>Release Date: November 8, 2004  [eBook #13978]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE LEGEND OF ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL***</p>
+<br /><br /><h4>E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, David Garcia,<br />
+                and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</h4><br /><br />
+<hr class="full" />
+<div style="height: 2em;"><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/horse-1.png"><img src="images/horse-1.png" width="60%"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h1>
+THE HORSE SHOE
+</h1>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    THE TRUE LEGEND OF
+<br />
+    ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL;
+</h2>
+<h3>
+SHOWING HOW THE HORSE-SHOE CAME TO BE A CHARM AGAINST WITCHCRAFT.
+</h3>
+<center><b>
+BY EDWARD G. FLIGHT.
+</b>
+</center>
+<center>
+WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
+<br />
+BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,
+</center>
+<center>
+ENGRAVED BY JOHN THOMPSON.
+</center>
+
+<center><img src="images/horse-2.png" alt="" /></center>
+
+<center>
+<i>THIRD EDITION</i>.
+</center>
+<center>
+LONDON:
+<!-- BELL AND DALDY, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN. -->
+<br />
+1871.
+</center>
+
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+<center>
+CHISWICK PRESS:&mdash;PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS,
+<br />
+TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
+</center>
+-->
+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="80%" src="images/horse-3.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+    PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
+</h2>
+<p style="text-indent: -2em;">
+<img width="75" height="75" src="images/cap-t.png" alt="T" style="float: left; margin-right: 2em;" />
+HE success of the first edition of this little work, compels its author
+to say a few words on the issue of a second. "Expressive silence" would
+now be in him the excessive impudence of not acknowledging, as he
+respectfully does acknowledge, that success to be greatly ascribable to
+the eminent artists who have drawn and engraved the illustrations.
+</p>
+<p>
+"A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a
+generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no
+impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed,
+however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving
+pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even
+so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its
+obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation
+would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my <i>friend</i>
+would write a book!"
+</p>
+<p>
+In former days, possibly, things may have been very different from what
+they now are. Haply, the literary highway may, heretofore, have been not
+particularly clean, choked with rubbish, badly drained, ill lighted, not
+always well paved even with good intentions, and beset with dangerous
+characters, bilious-looking Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon,
+hocus, strangle, and pillage any new arrival. But all that is now
+changed. Now, the path of literature is all velvet and roses. The race
+of quacks and impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and
+the dodo; and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being
+tarred and feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united
+happy family"&mdash;of letters.
+</p>
+<p>
+Much of this agreeable change is owing to the improvement of the
+literary police, which is become a respectable, sober, well-conducted
+body of men, who seldom go on duty as critics, without a horse-shoe.
+Much is owing to the propagation of the doctrines of the Peace Society,
+even among that species of the <i>genus irritabile</i>, authors
+themselves, who have at last learned
+</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "That brother should not war with brother</p>
+<p class="i2">   And worry and devour each other;</p>
+<p class="i2">   But sing and shine by sweet consent</p>
+<p class="i2">   Till life's poor transient night is spent."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Chiefly, however, is the happy change attributable to the discriminating
+and impartial judgment of the reading public of this golden Victorian
+era. In the present day, it may be considered a general rule, that
+no picture is admired, no book pronounced readable, no magazine or
+newspaper circulated, unless in each case it develope intrinsic merit.
+The mere name of the artist, or author, or editor, has not the slightest
+weight with our present intelligent, discriminating community, who are
+never enslaved, or misled, by whim, caprice, or fashion. It has been
+said, but it seems too monstrous for belief, that, formerly, persons
+were actually to be found so extremely indolent, or stupid, or timid, as
+never to think for themselves; but who followed with the crowd, like a
+swarm of bees, to the brazen tinkle of a mere name! Happily, the minds
+of the present age are far too active, enlightened, independent, and
+fearless, for degradation so unworthy. In our day, the professed wit
+hopes not for the homage of a laugh, on his "only asking for the
+mustard;" the artist no longer trusts to his signature on the canvas for
+its being admired; no amount of previous authorship-celebrity preserves
+a book from the trunkmaker; and the newspaper-writer cannot expect an
+extensive sale, unless his leaders equal, at least, the frothy head of
+"Barclay's porter," or possess the Attic salt of "Fortnum and Mason's
+hams." At the same time, the proudest notable in literature can now no
+longer swamp, or thrust aside, his obscurer peers; nor is the humblest
+votive offering at the shrine of intellect, in danger, as formerly, from
+the hoofs of spurious priests, alike insensible to receive, and impotent
+to reflect or minister, light or warmth, from the sacred fire they
+pretend to cherish. In short, such is the pleasant change which has come
+over literary affairs, that, however apposite in past times, there is
+not, in the present, any fitness in the exclamation, "Oh, that mine
+enemy would write a book!"
+</p>
+<p>
+With reference to the observation, made by more than one correspondent,
+that the horse-shoe has not always proved an infallible charm against
+the devil, the author, deferentially, begs to hazard an opinion that, in
+every one of such cases, the supposed failure may have resulted from an
+adoption of something else than the real shoe, as a protection. Once
+upon a time, a witness very sensibly accounted for the plaintiff's horse
+having broken down. "'Twasn't the hoss's fault," said he; "his plates
+was wore so thin and so smooth, that, if he'd been Hal Brook<a href="#note-1" name="noteref-1"><small>1</small></a> his
+self, he couldn't help slipping."
+</p>
+<p>
+"You mean," said the judge, "that the horse, instead of shoes, had
+merely slippers?"
+</p>
+<p>
+Peradventure, the alleged failures may be similarly accounted for;
+the party, in each case, having perhaps nailed up, not a shoe, but a
+slipper, the learned distinction respecting which was thus judicially
+recognised. The deed which the devil signed, must, like a penal statute,
+be construed strictly. It says nothing of a slipper; and it has been
+held by all our greatest lawyers, from Popham and Siderfin, down to
+Ambler and Walker, that a slipper is not a shoe.
+</p>
+<p>
+Another solution suggests itself. Possibly the horse-shoe, even if
+genuine, was not affixed until after the Wicked One had already got
+possession. In that case, not only would the charm be inefficacious
+to eject him, but would actually operate as a bar to his quitting the
+premises; for that eminent jurisconsult, Mephistopheles himself, has
+distinctly laid it down as "a law binding on devils, that they must go
+out the same way they stole in." Nailing up a shoe to keep the devil
+out, after he has once got in, is indeed too late; and is something like
+the literary pastime of the "Englishman," who kept on showing cause
+against the Frenchman's rule, long after the latter had, on the motion
+of his soldiers, already made it absolute with costs.
+</p>
+<p>
+There is one other circumstance the author begs to refer to, from a
+desire to dispel any uneasiness about our relations with the Yezidi
+government. The late distinguished under-secretary for foreign affairs,
+as every one knows, not regarding as <i>infra dig.</i> certain great,
+winged, human-headed bulls,<a href="#note-2" name="noteref-2"><small>2</small></a> that would have astonished Mr. Edgeworth,
+not less than they puzzle all Smithfield, and the rest of the learned
+"whose speech is of oxen," has imported those extraordinary
+grand-junction specimens, which, with their countryfolk, the Yezidis,
+Dr. Layard has particularly described in his book on Nineveh. When
+speaking of the Yezidis, he has observed, "The name of the evil spirit
+is, however, never mentioned; and any allusion to it by others so vexes
+and irritates them, that it is said they have put to death persons who
+have wantonly outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread
+of offending the evil principle carried, that they carefully avoid every
+expression which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic
+word for 'accursed.' Thus, in speaking of a river, they will not say
+<i>Shat</i>, because it is too nearly connected with the first syllable
+in <i>Sheitan</i>, the devil; but substitute <i>Nahr</i>. Nor, for the
+same reason, will they utter the word <i>Keitan</i>, thread or fringe.
+<i>Naal</i>, a horse-shoe, and <i>naal-band</i>, a farrier, are forbidden words;
+because they approach to <i>laan</i>, a curse, and <i>m&#257;loun</i>, accursed."&mdash;<i>Layard</i>,
+vol. i. p. 297.
+</p>
+<p>
+Notwithstanding all this, the author has the pleasant satisfaction of
+most respectfully assuring his readers, on the authority of the last
+Yezidi <i>Moniteur</i>, that the amicable relations of this country with
+the Yezidi government are not in the slightest danger of being disturbed
+by this little book; and that John Bull is, at present, in no jeopardy
+of being swallowed up by those monstrous distant cousins of his, of whom
+Mr. Layard has brought home the above-mentioned speaking likenesses.
+</p>
+<p class="r">
+1, Adam Street, Adelphi.
+</p>
+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img src="images/horse-4.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
+</h2>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img src="images/horse-5.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/horse-6.png"><img src="images/horse-6.png"
+alt="" width="60%" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class="quote">
+"And it is for trouth reported, that where this signe dothe appere,
+there the Evill Spirite entreth not."&mdash;SERMON ON WITCHES.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+"Your wife's a witch, man; you should nail a horse-shoe on your
+chamber-door."&mdash;REDGAUNTLET.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="80%" src="images/horse-7.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
+</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p style="text-indent: -2em; margin-left: -3em;">
+<img width="75" height="75" src="images/cap-i.png" alt="I" style="float: left; margin-right: 2em;" />
+N days of yore, when saints were plenty</p>
+<p class="i6">   (For each one now, you'd then find twenty,)</p>
+<p class="i10">       In Glaston's fruitful vale</p>
+<p class="i6">   Saint Dunstan had his dwelling snug</p>
+<p class="i6">   Warm as that inmate of a rug</p>
+<p class="i10">       Named in no polished tale</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The holy man, when not employed</p>
+<p class="i2">   At prayers or meals, to work enjoyed</p>
+<p class="i6">       With anvil, forge, and sledge</p>
+<p class="i2">   These he provided in his cell</p>
+<p class="i2">   With saintly furniture as well;</p>
+<p class="i6">       So chroniclers allege</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The peaceful mattock, ploughshare, spade</p>
+<p class="i2">   Sickle, and pruning-hook he made</p>
+<p class="i6">       Eschewing martial labours</p>
+<p class="i2">   Thus bees will rather honey bring</p>
+<p class="i2">   Than hurtfully employ their sting</p>
+<p class="i6">       In warfare for their neighbours</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   A cheerful saint too, oft would he</p>
+<p class="i2">   Mellow old Time with minstrelsy,&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i6">       But such as gave no scandal;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Than his was never harp more famed;</p>
+<p class="i2">   For Dunstan was the blacksmith named</p>
+<p class="i6">       Harmonious by Handel</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And when with tuneful voice he sang</p>
+<p class="i2">   His well-strung harp's melodious twang</p>
+<p class="i6">       Accompaniment lending;</p>
+<p class="i2">   So sweetly wedded were the twain</p>
+<p class="i2">   The chords flowed mingled with the strain</p>
+<p class="i6">       Mellifluently blending</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Now 'tis well known mankind's great foe</p>
+<p class="i2">   Oft lurks and wanders to and fro</p>
+<p class="i6">       In bailiwicks and shires;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Scattering broad-cast his mischief-seeds</p>
+<p class="i2">   Planting the germs of wicked deeds</p>
+<p class="i2">   Choking fair shoots with poisonous weeds</p>
+<p class="i6">       Till goodness nigh expires</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Well, so it chanced, this tramping vagrant</p>
+<p class="i2">   Intent on villanies most flagrant</p>
+<p class="i6">       Ranged by Saint Dunstan's gate;</p>
+<p class="i2">   And hearing music so delicious</p>
+<p class="i2">   Like hooded snake, his spleen malicious</p>
+<p class="i6">       Swelled up with envious hate</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/illus-003.png"><img width="100%" src="images/illus-003.png"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Thought Nick, I'll make his harp a fool;</p>
+<p class="i2">   I'll push him from his music-stool;</p>
+<p class="i6">       Then, skulking near the saint</p>
+<p class="i2">   The vilest jars Nick loudly sounded</p>
+<p class="i2">   Of brayings, neighings, screams compounded;</p>
+<p class="i2">   How the musician's ears were wounded</p>
+<p class="i6">       Not Hogarth e'en could paint</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The devil fancied it rare fun</p>
+<p class="i2">   "Well! don't you like my second, Dun?</p>
+<p class="i2">   Two parts sound better sure than one,"</p>
+<p class="i6">       Said he, with queer grimace:</p>
+<p class="i2">   "Come sing away, indeed you shall;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Strike up a spicy madrigal</p>
+<p class="i6">       And hear me do the bass."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   This chaffing Dunstan could not brook</p>
+<p class="i2">   His clenched fist, his crabbed look</p>
+<p class="i6">       Betrayed his irritation</p>
+<p class="i2">   'Twas nuts for Nick's derisive jaw</p>
+<p class="i2">   Who fairly chuckled when he saw</p>
+<p class="i6">       The placid saint's vexation</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "<i>Au revoir</i>, friend, adieu till noon;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Just now you are rather out of tune</p>
+<p class="i6">       Your visage is too sharp;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Your ear perhaps a trifle flat:</p>
+<p class="i2">   When I return, 'All round my hat'</p>
+<p class="i6">       We'll have upon the harp."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   A tale, I know, has gone about</p>
+<p class="i2">   That Dunstan twinged him by the snout</p>
+<p class="i6">       With pincers hotly glowing;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Levying, by <i>fieri facias</i> tweak</p>
+<p class="i2">   A diabolic screech and squeak</p>
+<p class="i6">       No tender mercy showing</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   But antiquarians the most curious</p>
+<p class="i2">   Reject that vulgar tale as spurious;</p>
+<p class="i6">       His reverence, say they</p>
+<p class="i2">   Instead of giving nose a pull</p>
+<p class="i2">   Resolved on vengeance just and full</p>
+<p class="i6">       Upon some future day</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Dunstan the saying called to mind</p>
+<p class="i2">   "The devil through his paw behind</p>
+<p class="i2">   Alone shall penal torture find</p>
+<p class="i6">       From iron, lead, or steel."</p>
+<p class="i2">   Achilles thus had been eternal</p>
+<p class="i2">   Thanks to his baptism infernal</p>
+<p class="i6">       But for his mortal heel</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And so the saint, by wisdom guided</p>
+<p class="i2">   To fix old Clootie's hoof decided</p>
+<p class="i6">       With horse-shoe of real metal</p>
+<p class="i2">   And iron nails quite unmistakable;</p>
+<p class="i2">   For Dunstan, now become implacable</p>
+<p class="i6">       Resolved Nick's hash to settle</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Satan, of this without forewarning</p>
+<p class="i2">   Worse luck for him! the following morning</p>
+<p class="i6">       With simper sauntered in;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Squinted at what the saint was doing</p>
+<p class="i2">   But never smoked the mischief brewing</p>
+<p class="i2">   Putting his foot in't; soon the shoeing</p>
+<p class="i6">       Did holy smith begin</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Oh! 'twas worth coin to see him seize</p>
+<p class="i2">   That ugly leg, and 'twixt his knees</p>
+<p class="i6">       Firmly the pastern grasp</p>
+<p class="i2">   The shoe he tried on, burning hot</p>
+<p class="i2">   His tools all handy he had got</p>
+<p class="i6">       Hammer, and nails, and rasp</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   A startled stare the devil lent</p>
+<p class="i2">   Much wondering what St. Dunstan meant</p>
+<p class="i6">       This preluding to follow</p>
+<p class="i2">   But the first nail from hammer's stroke</p>
+<p class="i2">   Full soon Nick's silent wonder broke</p>
+<p class="i2">   For his shrill scream might then have woke</p>
+<p class="i6">       The sleepiest of Sleepy Hollow</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And distant Echo heard the sound</p>
+<p class="i2">   Vexing the hills for leagues around</p>
+<p class="i6">       But answer would not render</p>
+<p class="i2">   She may not thus her lips profane:</p>
+<p class="i2">   So Shadow, fearful of a stain</p>
+<p class="i6">       Avoids the black offender</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The saint no pity had on Nick</p>
+<p class="i2">   But drove long nails right through the quick;</p>
+<p class="i6">       Louder shrieked he, and faster</p>
+<p class="i2">   Dunstan cared not; his bitter grin</p>
+<p class="i2">   Without mistake, showed Father Sin</p>
+<p class="i6">       He had found a ruthless master</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And having driven, clenched, and filed</p>
+<p class="i2">   The saint reviewed his work, and smiled</p>
+<p class="i6">       With cruel satisfaction;</p>
+<p class="i2">   And jeering said, "Pray, ere you go</p>
+<p class="i2">   Dance me the <i>pas seul</i> named 'Jim Crow,'</p>
+<p class="i6">       With your most graceful action."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   To tell how Horny yelled and cried</p>
+<p class="i2">   And all the artful tricks he tried</p>
+<p class="i6">       To ease his tribulations</p>
+<p class="i2">   Would more than fill a bigger book</p>
+<p class="i2">   Than ever author undertook</p>
+<p class="i6">       Since the Book of Lamentations</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   His tail's short, quick, convulsive coils</p>
+<p class="i2">   Told of more pain than all Job's boils</p>
+<p class="i2">   When Satan brought, with subtle toils</p>
+<p class="i6">       Job's patience to the scratch</p>
+<p class="i2">   For sympathetic tortures spread</p>
+<p class="i2">   From hoof to tail, from tail to head:</p>
+<p class="i6">       All did the anguish catch</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/illus-004.png"><img width="100%" src="images/illus-004.png"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And yet, though seemed this sharp correction</p>
+<p class="i2">   Stereotyped in Satan's recollection</p>
+<p class="i6">       As in his smarting hocks;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Not until he the following deed</p>
+<p class="i2">   Had signed and sealed, St. Dunstan freed</p>
+<p class="i6">       The vagabond from stocks</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="quote">
+    <b>To all</b> good folk in Christendom to whom this instrument
+    shall come the Devil sendeth greeting: <b>Know ye</b> that for
+    himself and heirs said Devil covenants and declares, that never
+    at morn or evening prayers at chapel church or meeting, never
+    where concords of sweet sound sacred or social flow around or
+    harmony is woo'd, nor where the Horse-Shoe meets his sight on
+    land or sea by day or night on lowly sill or lofty pinnacle on
+    bowsprit helm mast boom or binnacle, said Devil will intrude.
+</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The horse-shoe now saves keel, and roof</p>
+<p class="i2">   From visits of this rover's hoof</p>
+<p class="i6">       The emblem seen preventing</p>
+<p class="i2">   He recks the bond, but more the pain</p>
+<p class="i2">   The nails went so against the grain</p>
+<p class="i6">       The rasp was so tormenting</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   He will not through Gran&#257;da march</p>
+<p class="i2">   For there he knows the horse-shoe arch</p>
+<p class="i6">       At every gate attends him</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor partridges can he digest</p>
+<p class="i2">   Since the dire horse-shoe on the breast</p>
+<p class="i6">       Most grievously offends him</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The name of Smith he cannot bear;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Smith Payne he'll curse, and foully swear</p>
+<p class="i6">       At Smith of Pennsylvania</p>
+<p class="i2">   With looks so wild about the face;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Monro called in, pronounced the case</p>
+<p class="i6">       Clear antismithymania;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And duly certified that Nick</p>
+<p class="i2">   Should be confined as lunatic</p>
+<p class="i6">       Fit subject for commission</p>
+<p class="i2">   But who the deuce would like to be</p>
+<p class="i2">   The devil's person's committee?</p>
+<p class="i6">       So kindred won't petition</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Now, since the wicked fiend's at large</p>
+<p class="i2">   Skippers, and housekeepers, I charge</p>
+<p class="i6">       You all to heed my warning</p>
+<p class="i2">   Over your threshold, on your mast</p>
+<p class="i2">   Be sure the horse-shoe's well nailed fast</p>
+<p class="i6">       Protecting and adorning</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/illus-005.png"><img width="100%" src="images/illus-005.png"
+alt="'O, et Praesidium, Et Dulce Decus.'--Hor Lib. I. Ode I." />
+</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Here note, if humourists by trade</p>
+<p class="i2">   On waistcoat had the shoe displayed</p>
+<p class="i2">   Lampoon's sour spirit might be laid</p>
+<p class="i6">       And cease its spiteful railing</p>
+<p class="i2">   Whether the humour chanced to be</p>
+<p class="i2">   Joke, pun, quaint ballad, repartee</p>
+<p class="i2">   Slang, or bad spelling, we should see</p>
+<p class="i6">       Good humour still prevailing</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And oh! if Equity, as well</p>
+<p class="i2">   As Nisi Prius, would not sell</p>
+<p class="i6">       <i>Reason's perfection</i> ever</p>
+<p class="i2">   To wrangling suitors <i>sans</i> horse-shoe</p>
+<p class="i2">   Lawyers would soon have nought to do</p>
+<p class="i2">   Their subtle efforts ceasing too</p>
+<p class="i6">       Reason from right to sever</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   While Meux the symbol wears, <i>tant mieux</i></p>
+<p class="i2">   Repelling sinful aid to brew</p>
+<p class="i6">       His liquid strains XX;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Still, I advise, strong drinks beware</p>
+<p class="i2">   No horse-shoe thwarts the devil there</p>
+<p class="i6">       Or demon-mischief checks</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   And let me rede you, Mr. Barry</p>
+<p class="i2">   Not all your arms of John, Dick, Harry</p>
+<p class="i6">       Plantagenet, or Tudor;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor your projections, or your niches</p>
+<p class="i2">   Affluent of crowns and sculptile riches</p>
+<p class="i6">       Will scare the foul intruder</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   He'll care not for your harp a whistle</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor lion, horse, rose, shamrock, thistle</p>
+<p class="i6">       Horn'd head, or <i>Honi soit</i>;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Nor puppy-griffs, though doubtless meant</p>
+<p class="i2">   Young senators to represent</p>
+<p class="i6">       Like Samson, armed with jaw</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Only consult your sober senses</p>
+<p class="i2">   And ponder well the consequences</p>
+<p class="i6">       If in some moment evil</p>
+<p class="i2">   The old sinner should take Speaker's chair</p>
+<p class="i2">   Make Black Rod fetch the nobles there</p>
+<p class="i6">       And with them play the devil!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Then do not fail, great architect</p>
+<p class="i2">   Assembled wisdom to protect</p>
+<p class="i6">       From Satan's visitation</p>
+<p class="i2">   With horse-shoe fortify each gate</p>
+<p class="i2">   Each lion's paw; and then the State</p>
+<p class="i6">       Is safe from ruination</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="100%" src="images/horse-10.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<img width="80%" src="images/horse-11.png" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+    POSTSCRIPT.
+</h2>
+
+<p style="text-indent: -2em;">
+<img width="75" height="75" src="images/cap-t.png" alt="T" style="float: left; margin-right: 2em;" />
+HE courteous reader's indulgence will, it is hoped, extend to a waiver
+of all proofs and vouchers in demonstration of the authenticity of this
+tale, which is "simply told as it was told to me." Any one who can show
+that it is not the true tale, will greatly oblige, if he can and will a
+tale unfold, that <i>is</i> the true one. If this is not the true story
+and history of the horse-shoe's charm against the wicked one, what
+<i>is</i>? That's the question.
+</p>
+<p>
+There's nothing like candour; and so it is here candidly and ingenuously
+confessed that the original deed mentioned in the poem, has hitherto
+eluded the most diligent searches and researches. As yet, it cannot be
+found, notwithstanding all the patient, zealous, and persevering efforts
+of learned men, erudite antiquarians, law and equity chiffonniers, who
+have poked and pored, in, through, over, and among, heaps, bundles,
+and collections, of old papers, vellums, parchments, deeds, muniments,
+documents, testaments, instruments, ingrossments, records, writings,
+indentures, deed polls, escrows, books, bills, rolls, charters,
+chirographs, and exemplifications, in old English, German text, black
+letter, red letter, round-hand, court-hand, Norman French, dog Latin,
+and law gibberish, occupying all sorts of old boxes, old bookcases, old
+chests, old cupboards, old desks, old drawers, old presses, and old
+shelves, belonging to the Dunstan branch of the old Smith family. At
+one moment, during the searches, it is true, hopes were excited on the
+perception of a faint brimstone odour issuing from an antiquated iron
+box found among some rubbish; but instead of any vellum or parchment,
+there were only the unused remains of some bundles of veteran matches,
+with their tinder-box accomplice, which had been thrown aside and
+forgotten, ever since the time when the functions of those old hardened
+incendiaries, flint and steel, were extinguished by the lucifers.
+All further search, it is feared, will be in vain; and the deed is now
+believed to be as irrecoverably lost, as the musty muster-roll of Battle
+Abbey.
+</p>
+<p>
+A legal friend has volunteered an opinion, that certain supposed defects
+in the alleged deed evince its spuriousness, and even if genuine, its
+inefficiency. His words are, "The absence of all legal consideration,
+that is to say, valuable consideration, such as money, or money's worth;
+or good consideration, such as natural love and affection, would render
+the deed void, or voidable, as a mere <i>nudum pactum</i>. [See
+<i>Plowden</i>.] Moreover, an objection arises from there being no
+<i>Anno Domini</i>, [<i>Year Book, Temp. Ric. III.</i>] and no <i>Anno Regni</i>,
+[<i>Croke Eliz.</i>] and no condition <i>in p&oelig;nam</i>. [<i>Lib. Ass.</i>] Now,
+if the original deed had been thus defective, the covenanting party
+thereto is too good a lawyer, not to have set it aside."
+</p>
+<p>
+To these learned subtleties it may be answered, that the deed was
+evidently intended, not so much as an instrument effectively binding
+"the covenanting party," as a record whereby to justify a renewal
+of punishment, in case of contravention of any of the articles of
+treaty. It would have been informal to make mention of money as the
+consideration, it being patent that this "covenanting party" considers
+it of no value at all. For however dearly all "good folk in Christendom"
+may estimate and hug the precious bane, as the most valuable
+consideration on earth, he, old sinner that he is, wickedly disparages
+it, as being mere filthy lucre, only useful horticulturally, to manure
+his hot-beds of iniquity. With regard to the consideration of natural
+love and affection, it is humbly submitted that the facts are at
+variance with such a suggestion.
+</p>
+<p>
+Another friend, not of the legal, but the equestrian order, has
+tendered, according to his ideas, an explanation of the especial
+protecting virtue of the horseshoe. His notions are given as follows,
+<i>ipsissimis verbis</i>. "There is not in the whole world, a nobler
+animal than that splendid fellow, the horse. He is the embodiment of all
+that is magnificent, possessing strength, swiftness, courage, sagacity,
+and gracefulness. He never drinks more than he needs, or says more
+than he ought. If he were an opposition M.P.&mdash;and a horse was once a
+consul&mdash;his speech against Government bills, would be only a dignified
+neigh. Base and unworthy measures he disdains.
+</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Who ever knew this honest brute</p>
+<p class="i2">   At law his neighbour prosecute;</p>
+<p class="i2">   Bring action for assault and battery</p>
+<p class="i2">   Or friend beguile with lies and flattery?</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+"His proud step is on all fours with his love of a fair field and no
+favour. The grandeur of his nature is such, that the idea of a beggar
+on horseback is proverbially the most revolting of all inequitable
+absurdities and incongruities in human economy; while, on the other
+hand, as was once well remarked by a distinguished lecturer, this superb
+animal stamped his very name itself on that for which our loftiest
+princes and nobles, before the present degenerate age of iron, were
+emulous of distinguishing themselves. In proportion as they developed
+unblemished honour, with undaunted bravery, graceful bearing, and
+magnanimous generosity, were they deemed worthy to rank among
+Christendom's bright chivalry.
+</p>
+<p>
+"The horse-shoe was, no doubt, regarded as typical of the noble
+qualities of its wearer. These being so hateful to the ugly, sly,
+intriguing, slandering, malevolent, ill-conditioned, pettifogging,
+pitiful arch-enemy, it might well be supposed that the mere apparition
+of that type would scare him away. To this supposition is ascribable the
+adoption of the horse-shoe, as an infallible charm against the visits of
+old Iniquity."
+</p>
+<p>
+But mere "supposition" is no answer to the question above propounded.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+An acknowledgment is due, and is hereby offered, to the unknown
+correspondent, who has obligingly communicated the following copy of the
+coat of arms of the Dunstan family.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Azure, on a chevron gules between three harps, a horse-shoe supported
+by two pairs of pincers, proper. <i>Crest</i>&mdash;An arm embowed, couped
+at the shoulder, the hand grasping a hammer, all proper.
+<i>Motto</i>&mdash;'SARUED HYM RIGHTE.'"
+</p>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/coatarms.png"><img width="60%" src="images/coatarms.png"
+alt="Sareud Hym Righte" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Footnotes</h2>
+
+<a name="note-1"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>1</u> (<a href="#noteref-1">return</a>)<br />
+Doubtless he meant Al Borak, the name of Mahomet's night
+mare.
+</p>
+<a name="note-2"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>2</u> (<a href="#noteref-2">return</a>)<br />
+A sister countryman,&mdash;a bull is excusable when discoursing
+of bulls,&mdash;on seeing the monster at the Museum, exclaimed, "Faith! the
+great Dan himself couldn't repale <i>that</i> union, at all, at all,
+<i>after</i> 'twas once put together." Some suppose this bull to be
+typical of a foreign John Bull, the head representing the Crown, the
+fine feathers the Lords, and the rest the Commons.
+</p>
+
+<br />
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil,
+by Edward G. Flight, Illustrated by George Cruikshank
+
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+Title: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil
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+Author: Edward G. Flight
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+THE TRUE LEGEND OF ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL
+
+Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft
+
+by
+
+EDWARD G. FLIGHT.
+
+With Illustrations by George Cruikshank
+
+Engraved by John Thompson
+
+Third Edition
+
+1871
+
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+[Illustration]
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+PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+
+The success of the first edition of this little work, compels its author
+to say a few words on the issue of a second. "Expressive silence" would
+now be in him the excessive impudence of not acknowledging, as he
+respectfully does acknowledge, that success to be greatly ascribable to
+the eminent artists who have drawn and engraved the illustrations.
+
+"A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a
+generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no
+impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed,
+however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving
+pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even
+so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its
+obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation
+would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my _friend_
+would write a book!"
+
+In former days, possibly, things may have been very different from what
+they now are. Haply, the literary highway may, heretofore, have been not
+particularly clean, choked with rubbish, badly drained, ill lighted, not
+always well paved even with good intentions, and beset with dangerous
+characters, bilious-looking Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon,
+hocus, strangle, and pillage any new arrival. But all that is now
+changed. Now, the path of literature is all velvet and roses. The race
+of quacks and impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and
+the dodo; and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being
+tarred and feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united
+happy family"--of letters.
+
+Much of this agreeable change is owing to the improvement of the
+literary police, which is become a respectable, sober, well-conducted
+body of men, who seldom go on duty as critics, without a horse-shoe.
+Much is owing to the propagation of the doctrines of the Peace Society,
+even among that species of the _genus irritabile_, authors
+themselves, who have at last learned
+
+  "That brother should not war with brother,
+  And worry and devour each other;
+  But sing and shine by sweet consent,
+  Till life's poor transient night is spent."
+
+
+Chiefly, however, is the happy change attributable to the discriminating
+and impartial judgment of the reading public of this golden Victorian
+era. In the present day, it may be considered a general rule, that
+no picture is admired, no book pronounced readable, no magazine or
+newspaper circulated, unless in each case it develope intrinsic merit.
+The mere name of the artist, or author, or editor, has not the slightest
+weight with our present intelligent, discriminating community, who are
+never enslaved, or misled, by whim, caprice, or fashion. It has been
+said, but it seems too monstrous for belief, that, formerly, persons
+were actually to be found so extremely indolent, or stupid, or timid, as
+never to think for themselves; but who followed with the crowd, like a
+swarm of bees, to the brazen tinkle of a mere name! Happily, the minds
+of the present age are far too active, enlightened, independent, and
+fearless, for degradation so unworthy. In our day, the professed wit
+hopes not for the homage of a laugh, on his "only asking for the
+mustard;" the artist no longer trusts to his signature on the canvas for
+its being admired; no amount of previous authorship-celebrity preserves
+a book from the trunkmaker; and the newspaper-writer cannot expect an
+extensive sale, unless his leaders equal, at least, the frothy head of
+"Barclay's porter," or possess the Attic salt of "Fortnum and Mason's
+hams." At the same time, the proudest notable in literature can now no
+longer swamp, or thrust aside, his obscurer peers; nor is the humblest
+votive offering at the shrine of intellect, in danger, as formerly, from
+the hoofs of spurious priests, alike insensible to receive, and impotent
+to reflect or minister, light or warmth, from the sacred fire they
+pretend to cherish. In short, such is the pleasant change which has come
+over literary affairs, that, however apposite in past times, there is
+not, in the present, any fitness in the exclamation, "Oh, that mine
+enemy would write a book!"
+
+With reference to the observation, made by more than one correspondent,
+that the horse-shoe has not always proved an infallible charm against
+the devil, the author, deferentially, begs to hazard an opinion that, in
+every one of such cases, the supposed failure may have resulted from an
+adoption of something else than the real shoe, as a protection. Once
+upon a time, a witness very sensibly accounted for the plaintiff's horse
+having broken down. "'Twasn't the hoss's fault," said he; "his plates
+was wore so thin and so smooth, that, if he'd been Hal Brook[1] his
+self, he couldn't help slipping."
+
+[Footnote 1: Doubtless he meant Al Borak, the name of Mahomet's night
+mare.]
+
+"You mean," said the judge, "that the horse, instead of shoes, had
+merely slippers?"
+
+Peradventure, the alleged failures may be similarly accounted for;
+the party, in each case, having perhaps nailed up, not a shoe, but a
+slipper, the learned distinction respecting which was thus judicially
+recognised. The deed which the devil signed, must, like a penal statute,
+be construed strictly. It says nothing of a slipper; and it has been
+held by all our greatest lawyers, from Popham and Siderfin, down to
+Ambler and Walker, that a slipper is not a shoe.
+
+Another solution suggests itself. Possibly the horse-shoe, even if
+genuine, was not affixed until after the Wicked One had already got
+possession. In that case, not only would the charm be inefficacious
+to eject him, but would actually operate as a bar to his quitting the
+premises; for that eminent jurisconsult, Mephistopheles himself, has
+distinctly laid it down as "a law binding on devils, that they must go
+out the same way they stole in." Nailing up a shoe to keep the devil
+out, after he has once got in, is indeed too late; and is something like
+the literary pastime of the "Englishman," who kept on showing cause
+against the Frenchman's rule, long after the latter had, on the motion
+of his soldiers, already made it absolute with costs.
+
+There is one other circumstance the author begs to refer to, from a
+desire to dispel any uneasiness about our relations with the Yezidi
+government. The late distinguished under-secretary for foreign affairs,
+as every one knows, not regarding as _infra dig._ certain great, winged,
+human-headed bulls,[2] that would have astonished Mr. Edgeworth, not
+less than they puzzle all Smithfield, and the rest of the learned "whose
+speech is of oxen," has imported those extraordinary grand-junction
+specimens, which, with their countryfolk, the Yezidis, Dr. Layard has
+particularly described in his book on Nineveh. When speaking of the
+Yezidis, he has observed, "The name of the evil spirit is, however,
+never mentioned; and any allusion to it by others so vexes and irritates
+them, that it is said they have put to death persons who have wantonly
+outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread of offending
+the evil principle carried, that they carefully avoid every expression
+which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic word for
+'accursed.' Thus, in speaking of a river, they will not say _Shat_,
+because it is too nearly connected with the first syllable in _Sheitan_,
+the devil; but substitute _Nahr_. Nor, for the same reason, will they
+utter the word _Keitan_, thread or fringe. _Naal_, a horse-shoe, and
+_naal-band_, a farrier, are forbidden words; because they approach to
+_laan_, a curse, and _m[=a]loun_, accursed."--_Layard_, vol. i. p. 297.
+
+[Footnote 2: A sister countryman,--a bull is excusable when discoursing
+of bulls,--on seeing the monster at the Museum, exclaimed, "Faith! the
+great Dan himself couldn't repale _that_ union, at all, at all,
+_after_ 'twas once put together." Some suppose this bull to be
+typical of a foreign John Bull, the head representing the Crown, the
+fine feathers the Lords, and the rest the Commons.]
+
+Notwithstanding all this, the author has the pleasant satisfaction of
+most respectfully assuring his readers, on the authority of the last
+Yezidi _Moniteur_, that the amicable relations of this country with
+the Yezidi government are not in the slightest danger of being disturbed
+by this little book; and that John Bull is, at present, in no jeopardy
+of being swallowed up by those monstrous distant cousins of his, of whom
+Mr. Layard has brought home the above-mentioned speaking likenesses.
+
+1, Adam Street, Adelphi.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
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+
+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
+
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+[Illustration]
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+[Illustration]
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+
+"And it is for trouth reported, that where this signe dothe appere,
+there the Evill Spirite entreth not."--SERMON ON WITCHES.
+
+"Your wife's a witch, man; you should nail a horse-shoe on your
+chamber-door."--REDGAUNTLET.
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL.
+
+
+  In days of yore, when saints were plenty,
+  (For each one now, you'd then find twenty,)
+      In Glaston's fruitful vale,
+  Saint Dunstan had his dwelling snug,
+  Warm as that inmate of a rug,
+      Named in no polished tale.
+
+  The holy man, when not employed
+  At prayers or meals, to work enjoyed
+      With anvil, forge, and sledge.
+  These he provided in his cell,
+  With saintly furniture as well;
+      So chroniclers allege.
+
+  The peaceful mattock, ploughshare, spade,
+  Sickle, and pruning-hook he made,
+      Eschewing martial labours.
+  Thus bees will rather honey bring,
+  Than hurtfully employ their sting
+      In warfare for their neighbours.
+
+  A cheerful saint too, oft would he
+  Mellow old Time with minstrelsy,--
+      But such as gave no scandal;
+  Than his was never harp more famed;
+  For Dunstan was the blacksmith named
+      Harmonious by Handel.
+
+  And when with tuneful voice he sang,
+  His well-strung harp's melodious twang
+      Accompaniment lending;
+  So sweetly wedded were the twain,
+  The chords flowed mingled with the strain,
+      Mellifluently blending.
+
+  Now 'tis well known mankind's great foe
+  Oft lurks and wanders to and fro,
+      In bailiwicks and shires;
+  Scattering broad-cast his mischief-seeds,
+  Planting the germs of wicked deeds,
+  Choking fair shoots with poisonous weeds,
+      Till goodness nigh expires.
+
+  Well, so it chanced, this tramping vagrant,
+  Intent on villanies most flagrant,
+      Ranged by Saint Dunstan's gate;
+  And hearing music so delicious,
+  Like hooded snake, his spleen malicious
+      Swelled up with envious hate.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  Thought Nick, I'll make his harp a fool;
+  I'll push him from his music-stool;
+      Then, skulking near the saint,
+  The vilest jars Nick loudly sounded,
+  Of brayings, neighings, screams compounded;
+  How the musician's ears were wounded,
+      Not Hogarth e'en could paint.
+
+  The devil fancied it rare fun.
+  "Well! don't you like my second, Dun?
+  Two parts sound better sure than one,"
+      Said he, with queer grimace:
+  "Come sing away, indeed you shall;
+  Strike up a spicy madrigal,
+      And hear me do the bass."
+
+  This chaffing Dunstan could not brook,
+  His clenched fist, his crabbed look
+      Betrayed his irritation.
+  'Twas nuts for Nick's derisive jaw,
+  Who fairly chuckled when he saw
+      The placid saint's vexation.
+
+  "_Au revoir_, friend, adieu till noon;
+  Just now you are rather out of tune,
+      Your visage is too sharp;
+  Your ear perhaps a trifle flat:
+  When I return, 'All round my hat'
+      We'll have upon the harp."
+
+  A tale, I know, has gone about,
+  That Dunstan twinged him by the snout
+      With pincers hotly glowing;
+  Levying, by _fieri facias_ tweak,
+  A diabolic screech and squeak,
+      No tender mercy showing.
+
+  But antiquarians the most curious
+  Reject that vulgar tale as spurious;
+      His reverence, say they,
+  Instead of giving nose a pull,
+  Resolved on vengeance just and full
+      Upon some future day.
+
+  Dunstan the saying called to mind,
+  "The devil through his paw behind
+  Alone shall penal torture find
+      From iron, lead, or steel."
+  Achilles thus had been eternal,
+  Thanks to his baptism infernal,
+      But for his mortal heel.
+
+  And so the saint, by wisdom guided,
+  To fix old Clootie's hoof decided
+      With horse-shoe of real metal,
+  And iron nails quite unmistakable;
+  For Dunstan, now become implacable,
+      Resolved Nick's hash to settle.
+
+  Satan, of this without forewarning,
+  Worse luck for him! the following morning,
+      With simper sauntered in;
+  Squinted at what the saint was doing,
+  But never smoked the mischief brewing,
+  Putting his foot in't; soon the shoeing
+      Did holy smith begin.
+
+  Oh! 'twas worth coin to see him seize
+  That ugly leg, and 'twixt his knees
+      Firmly the pastern grasp.
+  The shoe he tried on, burning hot,
+  His tools all handy he had got,
+      Hammer, and nails, and rasp.
+
+  A startled stare the devil lent,
+  Much wondering what St. Dunstan meant
+      This preluding to follow.
+  But the first nail from hammer's stroke
+  Full soon Nick's silent wonder broke,
+  For his shrill scream might then have woke
+      The sleepiest of Sleepy Hollow.
+
+  And distant Echo heard the sound
+  Vexing the hills for leagues around,
+      But answer would not render.
+  She may not thus her lips profane:
+  So Shadow, fearful of a stain,
+      Avoids the black offender.
+
+  The saint no pity had on Nick,
+  But drove long nails right through the quick;
+      Louder shrieked he, and faster.
+  Dunstan cared not; his bitter grin,
+  Without mistake, showed Father Sin
+      He had found a ruthless master.
+
+  And having driven, clenched, and filed,
+  The saint reviewed his work, and smiled
+      With cruel satisfaction;
+  And jeering said, "Pray, ere you go,
+  Dance me the _pas seul_ named 'Jim Crow,'
+      With your most graceful action."
+
+  To tell how Horny yelled and cried,
+  And all the artful tricks he tried,
+      To ease his tribulations,
+  Would more than fill a bigger book
+  Than ever author undertook,
+      Since the Book of Lamentations.
+
+  His tail's short, quick, convulsive coils
+  Told of more pain than all Job's boils,
+  When Satan brought, with subtle toils,
+      Job's patience to the scratch.
+  For sympathetic tortures spread
+  From hoof to tail, from tail to head:
+      All did the anguish catch.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  And yet, though seemed this sharp correction
+  Stereotyped in Satan's recollection,
+      As in his smarting hocks;
+  Not until he the following deed
+  Had signed and sealed, St. Dunstan freed
+      The vagabond from stocks.
+
+
+    TO ALL good folk in Christendom to whom this instrument
+    shall come the Devil sendeth greeting: KNOW YE that for
+    himself and heirs said Devil covenants and declares, that never
+    at morn or evening prayers at chapel church or meeting, never
+    where concords of sweet sound sacred or social flow around or
+    harmony is woo'd, nor where the Horse-Shoe meets his sight on
+    land or sea by day or night on lowly sill or lofty pinnacle on
+    bowsprit helm mast boom or binnacle, said Devil will intrude.
+
+
+  The horse-shoe now saves keel, and roof,
+  From visits of this rover's hoof,
+      The emblem seen preventing.
+  He recks the bond, but more the pain,
+  The nails went so against the grain,
+      The rasp was so tormenting.
+
+  He will not through Gran[=a]da march,
+  For there he knows the horse-shoe arch
+      At every gate attends him.
+  Nor partridges can he digest,
+  Since the dire horse-shoe on the breast
+      Most grievously offends him.
+
+  The name of Smith he cannot bear;
+  Smith Payne he'll curse, and foully swear
+      At Smith of Pennsylvania,
+  With looks so wild about the face;
+  Monro called in, pronounced the case
+      Clear antismithymania;
+
+  And duly certified that Nick
+  Should be confined as lunatic,
+      Fit subject for commission.
+  But who the deuce would like to be
+  The devil's person's committee?
+      So kindred won't petition.
+
+  Now, since the wicked fiend's at large,
+  Skippers, and housekeepers, I charge
+      You all to heed my warning.
+  Over your threshold, on your mast,
+  Be sure the horse-shoe's well nailed fast,
+      Protecting and adorning.
+
+
+[Illustration: "O, et praesidium, et dulce decus."--HOR Lib. i. Ode i.]
+
+
+  Here note, if humourists by trade
+  On waistcoat had the shoe displayed,
+  Lampoon's sour spirit might be laid,
+      And cease its spiteful railing.
+  Whether the humour chanced to be
+  Joke, pun, quaint ballad, repartee,
+  Slang, or bad spelling, we should see
+      Good humour still prevailing.
+
+  And oh! if Equity, as well
+  As Nisi Prius, would not sell
+      _Reason's perfection_ ever
+  To wrangling suitors _sans_ horse-shoe,
+  Lawyers would soon have nought to do,
+  Their subtle efforts ceasing too,
+      Reason from right to sever.
+
+  While Meux the symbol wears, _tant mieux_,
+  Repelling sinful aid to brew
+      His liquid strains XX;
+  Still, I advise, strong drinks beware,
+  No horse-shoe thwarts the devil there,
+      Or demon-mischief checks.
+
+  And let me rede you, Mr. Barry,
+  Not all your arms of John, Dick, Harry,
+      Plantagenet, or Tudor;
+  Nor your projections, or your niches,
+  Affluent of crowns and sculptile riches,
+      Will scare the foul intruder.
+
+  He'll care not for your harp a whistle,
+  Nor lion, horse, rose, shamrock, thistle,
+      Horn'd head, or _Honi soit_;
+  Nor puppy-griffs, though doubtless meant
+  Young senators to represent,
+      Like Samson, armed with jaw.
+
+  Only consult your sober senses,
+  And ponder well the consequences,
+      If in some moment evil,
+  The old sinner should take Speaker's chair,
+  Make Black Rod fetch the nobles there,
+      And with them play the devil!
+
+  Then do not fail, great architect,
+  Assembled wisdom to protect
+      From Satan's visitation.
+  With horse-shoe fortify each gate,
+  Each lion's paw; and then the State
+      Is safe from ruination.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+POSTSCRIPT.
+
+
+The courteous reader's indulgence will, it is hoped, extend to a waiver
+of all proofs and vouchers in demonstration of the authenticity of this
+tale, which is "simply told as it was told to me." Any one who can show
+that it is not the true tale, will greatly oblige, if he can and will a
+tale unfold, that _is_ the true one. If this is not the true story
+and history of the horse-shoe's charm against the wicked one, what
+_is_? That's the question.
+
+There's nothing like candour; and so it is here candidly and ingenuously
+confessed that the original deed mentioned in the poem, has hitherto
+eluded the most diligent searches and researches. As yet, it cannot be
+found, notwithstanding all the patient, zealous, and persevering efforts
+of learned men, erudite antiquarians, law and equity chiffonniers, who
+have poked and pored, in, through, over, and among, heaps, bundles,
+and collections, of old papers, vellums, parchments, deeds, muniments,
+documents, testaments, instruments, ingrossments, records, writings,
+indentures, deed polls, escrows, books, bills, rolls, charters,
+chirographs, and exemplifications, in old English, German text, black
+letter, red letter, round-hand, court-hand, Norman French, dog Latin,
+and law gibberish, occupying all sorts of old boxes, old bookcases, old
+chests, old cupboards, old desks, old drawers, old presses, and old
+shelves, belonging to the Dunstan branch of the old Smith family. At
+one moment, during the searches, it is true, hopes were excited on the
+perception of a faint brimstone odour issuing from an antiquated iron
+box found among some rubbish; but instead of any vellum or parchment,
+there were only the unused remains of some bundles of veteran matches,
+with their tinder-box accomplice, which had been thrown aside and
+forgotten, ever since the time when the functions of those old hardened
+incendiaries, flint and steel, were extinguished by the lucifers.
+All further search, it is feared, will be in vain; and the deed is now
+believed to be as irrecoverably lost, as the musty muster-roll of Battle
+Abbey.
+
+A legal friend has volunteered an opinion, that certain supposed defects
+in the alleged deed evince its spuriousness, and even if genuine, its
+inefficiency. His words are, "The absence of all legal consideration,
+that is to say, valuable consideration, such as money, or money's worth;
+or good consideration, such as natural love and affection, would render
+the deed void, or voidable, as a mere _nudum pactum_. [See
+_Plowden_.] Moreover, an objection arises from there being no
+_Anno Domini_, [_Year Book, Temp. Ric. III._] and no _Anno Regni_,
+[_Croke Eliz._] and no condition _in poenam_. [_Lib. Ass._] Now,
+if the original deed had been thus defective, the covenanting party
+thereto is too good a lawyer, not to have set it aside."
+
+To these learned subtleties it may be answered, that the deed was
+evidently intended, not so much as an instrument effectively binding
+"the covenanting party," as a record whereby to justify a renewal
+of punishment, in case of contravention of any of the articles of
+treaty. It would have been informal to make mention of money as the
+consideration, it being patent that this "covenanting party" considers
+it of no value at all. For however dearly all "good folk in Christendom"
+may estimate and hug the precious bane, as the most valuable
+consideration on earth, he, old sinner that he is, wickedly disparages
+it, as being mere filthy lucre, only useful horticulturally, to manure
+his hot-beds of iniquity. With regard to the consideration of natural
+love and affection, it is humbly submitted that the facts are at
+variance with such a suggestion.
+
+Another friend, not of the legal, but the equestrian order, has
+tendered, according to his ideas, an explanation of the especial
+protecting virtue of the horseshoe. His notions are given as follows,
+_ipsissimis verbis_. "There is not in the whole world, a nobler
+animal than that splendid fellow, the horse. He is the embodiment of all
+that is magnificent, possessing strength, swiftness, courage, sagacity,
+and gracefulness. He never drinks more than he needs, or says more
+than he ought. If he were an opposition M.P.--and a horse was once a
+consul--his speech against Government bills, would be only a dignified
+neigh. Base and unworthy measures he disdains.
+
+
+  "Who ever knew this honest brute
+  At law his neighbour prosecute;
+  Bring action for assault and battery,
+  Or friend beguile with lies and flattery?
+
+
+"His proud step is on all fours with his love of a fair field and no
+favour. The grandeur of his nature is such, that the idea of a beggar
+on horseback is proverbially the most revolting of all inequitable
+absurdities and incongruities in human economy; while, on the other
+hand, as was once well remarked by a distinguished lecturer, this superb
+animal stamped his very name itself on that for which our loftiest
+princes and nobles, before the present degenerate age of iron, were
+emulous of distinguishing themselves. In proportion as they developed
+unblemished honour, with undaunted bravery, graceful bearing, and
+magnanimous generosity, were they deemed worthy to rank among
+Christendom's bright chivalry.
+
+"The horse-shoe was, no doubt, regarded as typical of the noble
+qualities of its wearer. These being so hateful to the ugly, sly,
+intriguing, slandering, malevolent, ill-conditioned, pettifogging,
+pitiful arch-enemy, it might well be supposed that the mere apparition
+of that type would scare him away. To this supposition is ascribable the
+adoption of the horse-shoe, as an infallible charm against the visits of
+old Iniquity."
+
+But mere "supposition" is no answer to the question above propounded.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An acknowledgment is due, and is hereby offered, to the unknown
+correspondent, who has obligingly communicated the following copy of the
+coat of arms of the Dunstan family.
+
+"Azure, on a chevron gules between three harps, a horse-shoe supported
+by two pairs of pincers, proper. _Crest_--An arm embowed, couped
+at the shoulder, the hand grasping a hammer, all proper.
+_Motto_--'SARUED HYM RIGHTE.'"
+
+[Illustration: SAREUD HYM RIGHTE]
+
+
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