I wonder I had not thought of Carisbrooke before you spoke; and there he can get fourscore feet, and twice and thrice fourscore, if he list, and none to stop him.

'Tis Carisbrooke.

I have heard of that well from childhood, and once saw it when a boy.

It is dug in the Castle Keep, and goes down fifty fathoms or more into the bowels of the chalk below.

It is so deep no man can draw the buckets on a winch, but they must have an ass inside a tread-wheel to hoist them up.