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LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP-WELL! THOU ART HAPPY 93

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[Byron gave Medwin the following account of this cup: "The gardener in digging [diswered) a skull that had probably belonged to some jolly friar or monk of the abbey, about the time it was dis-monasteried. Observing it to be of giant size, and in a perfect state of preservation, a strange fancy seized me of having it set and mounted as a drinking-cup. I accordingly sent it to town, and it returned with a very high polish, and of a mottled colour like torischell. Medwin's Conversations, 1824, p. 87.1

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