8. 'For Sussex cries from primrose lags and breaks'. (22)

_E.D.D._, among many meanings of #lag#, explains this as a Sussex

and Somerset term for 'a long marshy meadow usually by the side of a

stream'. Since the word seems as if it might be used for anything

somewhere, we cannot question its title to these meadows, but we doubt

its power to retain possession, except in some favoured locality.

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