Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 2Bohn, 1854 - Christian antiquities |
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... occur in the churchwarden's accounts of St. Mary at Hill , in the city of London , 1495 : " For bred and wyn and ale to Bowear ( a singer ) and his and to the Quere on Dedication Even , and on the morrow , is . vjd . " 1555. " Of the ...
... occur in the churchwarden's accounts of St. Mary at Hill , in the city of London , 1495 : " For bred and wyn and ale to Bowear ( a singer ) and his and to the Quere on Dedication Even , and on the morrow , is . vjd . " 1555. " Of the ...
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... occurs for a country wake in a Glossary to the Lancashire dialect . In the Church- wardens ' Accounts of St. Mary - at - Hill , in the city of London , 1504 , Yongeham and Revell , is the following article : " Paid for 2 berden rysshes ...
... occurs for a country wake in a Glossary to the Lancashire dialect . In the Church- wardens ' Accounts of St. Mary - at - Hill , in the city of London , 1504 , Yongeham and Revell , is the following article : " Paid for 2 berden rysshes ...
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... occurs . 66 At Werington , in Devonshire , the clergyman of the parish informed me that when a farmer finishes his reaping , a small quantity of the ears of the last corn are twisted or tied to- gether into a curious kind of figure ...
... occurs . 66 At Werington , in Devonshire , the clergyman of the parish informed me that when a farmer finishes his reaping , a small quantity of the ears of the last corn are twisted or tied to- gether into a curious kind of figure ...
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... occur in Poor Robin's Almanack for August , 1676 : " Hoacky is brought home with hallowing , Boys with plumb - cake the cart following . " The Hockey Cart is that which brings the last corn , and the ... occurs , " Wee will 22 HARVEST HOME .
... occur in Poor Robin's Almanack for August , 1676 : " Hoacky is brought home with hallowing , Boys with plumb - cake the cart following . " The Hockey Cart is that which brings the last corn , and the ... occurs , " Wee will 22 HARVEST HOME .
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... occurs , " Wee will han a seed- cake at Fastens , " and in Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters , ed . 1638 , under the character of a Franklin , we find enume- rated the several country sports , amongst which occurs " the Hoky or Seed Cake ...
... occurs , " Wee will han a seed- cake at Fastens , " and in Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters , ed . 1638 , under the character of a Franklin , we find enume- rated the several country sports , amongst which occurs " the Hoky or Seed Cake ...
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Page 243 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 485 - O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream ; Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are. Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ; And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as 'a...
Page 485 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 480 - Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night ; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes...
Page 476 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 260 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
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Page 260 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown : A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there ! Duke.
Page 501 - This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Still walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray, Long winters nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us.
Page 34 - Others th' unwilling wether drag along ; And, glorying in his might, the sturdy boy Holds by the twisted horns th' indignant ram. Behold where bound, and of its robe bereft, By needy Man, that all-depending lord, How meek, how patient, the mild creature lies ! What softness in its melancholy face, What...