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16 The Squire said, "Sure as paradise

"Was lost to man by Adam's sinning,

"This leap is for us all too bold;

"Who Peter was, let that be told,

"And start from the beginning."

A potter, Sir, he was by trade,

Said I, becoming quite collected;

And, wheresoever he appeared,

Full twenty times was Peter feared

For once that Peter was respected.

He two and thirty years or more

Had been a wild and woodland rover;

Had heard the Atlantic surges roar

On farthest Cornwall's rocky shore,

And trod the cliffs of Dover.