At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.

What is a wife but a pretended stumbling-block in the man's path, who has his way to make in the world?

Rectress of action , arbitress of fate

God can immediately immute, change, corrupt, destroy, or annihilate whatsoever pleaseth His divine majesty.