(St. Patrick, I suspect, had read the Arabian Nights, and stole a leaf from the fisherman’s book.)

For other similar tales, see Virgil The Enchanter.

St. Patrick a Gentleman.

Oh, St. Patrick was a gintleman,
Who came of dacent people….

(This song was written by Messrs. Bennet and Toleken, of Cork, and was first sung by them at a masquerade in 1814. It was afterwards lengthened for Webbe, the comedian, who made it popular.)

St. Patrick’s Purgatory, lough Derg, in Ireland. At the end of the fifteenth century, the purgatory of lough Derg was destroyed, by order of the pope, on St. Patrick’s Day, 1497.

(Calderon has a drama entitled The Purgatory of St. Patrick, 1600–1681.)


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