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LUCK OF EDEN HALL

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 924 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCK OF EDEN HALL  , an old painted drinking goblet pre, served at Eden Hall,Cumberland, the seat of the Musgrave
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family . It is of enamelled or painted glass and is believed to date from the loth century . It is of
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fair
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size and has the letters I.H.S. on the top . Round the vase is the famous verse given below . A legend involving the fortunes of the Musgraves attaches to this cup . In the grounds of Eden Hall is a spring called St Cuthbert's Well, and the story is that one of the earliest of the Musgraves surprised the fairies feasting and making merry round the well . He snatched at the goblet from which the Fairy King was drinking and made off with it . The fairies pursued him to his castle, but failed to catch him . The Fairy King acknowledged his defeat and gave the cup as a prize to Musgrave, but warned him that the gift carried with it a condition: " When this cup shall break or fall, Farewell the
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luck of Eden Hall." There are variants of this legend, but substantially they agree . Possessed of the lucky cup the knight of Musgrave is said to have at once prospered in a love-suit which had till then gone against him . There is a curious poem on the cup called " The Drinking Match at Eden Hall," by Philip, duke of Wharton, a parody on the ballad of Chevy Chase . This is reprinted in full in
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Edward Walford's Tales of
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Great Families (1877, vol .

II), under the heading, " The witty Duke of Wharton." In

Longfellow's famous poem the goblet is represented as having been broken .

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