Note 118 — SUPERSTITIONS, GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Reading edition
Mr. Baines, in his History of Lancashire (vol. iii. p. 760), says that in Wavertree is an ancient well with a rude, unintelligible inscription, of the date of 1414, which is thus charitably rendered by the villagers:—
"He that hath, and won't bestow, The Devil will reckon with him below."
Or,
"He who here does not bestow, The Devil laughs at him below."