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The first Cornish Mole. A Morality. I, however, suspect it to be a pure invention of this author; but as it is very pretty, I will give the substance of it. Alice of the Coombe was a very beautiful, but proud and vain, damsel; the only child of her widowed mother, with whom she dwelt at Morwenstow. It chanced one day that they, with all the neighbouring gentry, had been bidden to a grand banquet at Stow; and, as she had set her love on the great and noble Sir Beville Grenville, its owner, Alice, to win his affections, dressed herself in her richest robe--
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--and put on her fairest jewellery. Her mother, when she saw her thus attired, struck by her exceeding grace and beauty, said,
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Often shall I pray to-night that the Grenville heart may yield. Aye, thy victory shall be my prayer. The haughty maiden replied,
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With the eyes I now see in that glass, and with this vesture, meet for a queen, I lack no trusting prayer.