The horse-paced ardent fire!
Him we worship above the earth,
Fire, fire, low murmuring in its dawn,
High above our inspiration,
Above every spirit
Great is thy terribleness.[725]
Pourpre or purple, the royal or imperial colour, was doubtless associated with the Fire of Fires, and the connection between this word and porphureos must, I think, be sought in the idea of pyre furious or fire furious, rather than any epithet of the surging sea. The Welsh for purple is porffor.
Either within or immediately adjacent to the Manor of Poripool or Purpool were some famous springs named Bagnigge Wells: at the corner of Bathhurst Street, Paddington, was a second Bagnigge Wells, and the river Fleet used also at one time to be known as the Bagnigge. This ubiquitous Bagnigge was in all probability Big Nigge or Big Nicky—
Know you the Nixies gay and fair?
Their eyes are black and green their hair,