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admired the beauty of her perfon, and re- 

 folved to make an attempt upon her virtue. 

 It is faid that he made known to her his 

 paffion, on a Sunday morning, after her 

 parents were gone to church. She made 

 an excufe to efcape from the room, and 

 immediately fled towards the church ; he 

 overtook her on the defcent of the hill, 

 and, enraged at his difappointment, drew 

 his fword and flruck off her head. The 

 head rolled down the hill to the altar, at 

 which the congregation were kneeling,* 

 and flopping there, a clear and rapid foun- 

 tain immediately gufhed up. St. Beuno 

 fnatched up the head, and joining it to the 

 body, it was, to the furprize and admira- 



* I have infcrted this as I found it in the original, 

 though it does not appear, from any other author, 

 that the church, which Beuno founded, flood where 

 the well now is. I fhould rather think this muft be 

 a miflake. 



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