Weston super Mare.
_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.).--Roger Gale, in a letter
dated August 17, 1739, states that he saw the following lines in a window
at Belford (between Newcastle and Berwick):
"Cain, in disgrace with heaven, retired to Nod,
A place, undoubtedly, as far from God
As Cain could wish; which makes some think he went
As far as Scotland, ere he pitch'd his tent;
And there a city built of ancient fame,
Which he, from Eden, Edinburgh did name."
_Reliquiæ Galeanæ_, 67*
Charles Mathews, in a letter directed to his son at Mold N. W., dated 4th
November [1825], says:
"Lord Deerhurst, who franked this letter, laughed at the idea of your
being condemned to be at Mold, and told me an impromptu of Sheridan's,
upon being compelled to spend a day or two there:
"'Were I to curse the man I hate
From youth till I grow old,
Oh might he be condemn'd by fate
To waste his days in Mold!'"
_Memoirs of Charles Mathews_, v. 504.