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| Horses at Wembury, Devon - Joan Vaughan [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
"In Devon, when a. wife is of stronger will than her husband, the people say, "Aw ess, the grey mare in thickee 'ouze is the better 'oss," and ascribe her masterfulness to her having visited and drank of the water of the well of St. Keyne, in Cornwall."
Hewett 1900
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