52: "O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!" The word remained fairly common during the seventeenth century.

Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, in her Diary (1667) speaks of herself as suffering from "a fit of the spleen and mother together." {290} _Stranger men_.
{291} Ursula is evidently intended by Borrow to typify the gypsy chi.
And the key to the type is supplied in the _Gypsies in Spain_ (see especially chap.

vii.).

The gypsies, says Borrow, arc almost entirely ignorant of the grand points of morality; but on one point they are in general wiser than those who have had far better opportunities than such unfortunate outcasts of regulating their steps and distinguishing good from evil.

They know that chastity is a jewel of high price, and that conjugal fidelity is capable of occasionally flinging a sunshine even over the dreary hours of a life passed in the contempt of almost all laws, whether human or divine.