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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... passage : " Sedge and rushes with the which many in the country do use in summer time to strawe their parlors and churches , as well for cooleness as for pleasant smell . " Chambers , and indeed all apartments usually inhabited , were ...
... passage : " Sedge and rushes with the which many in the country do use in summer time to strawe their parlors and churches , as well for cooleness as for pleasant smell . " Chambers , and indeed all apartments usually inhabited , were ...
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... passage : Et cum sic glo- riaretur , et cogitaret cum quanta gloria duceretur ad illum virum super equum dicendo gio gio , cepit pede percutere terram quasi pungeret equum calcaribus . ' HARVEST HOME , ALIAS MELL SUPPER , KERN OR CHURN ...
... passage : Et cum sic glo- riaretur , et cogitaret cum quanta gloria duceretur ad illum virum super equum dicendo gio gio , cepit pede percutere terram quasi pungeret equum calcaribus . ' HARVEST HOME , ALIAS MELL SUPPER , KERN OR CHURN ...
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... passage in Ferne's Glory of Generositie , p . 71 , it should seem that cheese - cakes composed a principa . dainty at the feast of Sheep - shearing . " Well vor your paines ( if you come to our Sheep - shearing veast ) bum vaith yous ...
... passage in Ferne's Glory of Generositie , p . 71 , it should seem that cheese - cakes composed a principa . dainty at the feast of Sheep - shearing . " Well vor your paines ( if you come to our Sheep - shearing veast ) bum vaith yous ...
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... passage on this subject is taken from Melton's Astrologaster , p . 56 et seq .: " Those observers of time are to be laught at that will not goe out of their house before they have had counsell of their Almanacke , and will rather have ...
... passage on this subject is taken from Melton's Astrologaster , p . 56 et seq .: " Those observers of time are to be laught at that will not goe out of their house before they have had counsell of their Almanacke , and will rather have ...
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... passage , is an exception from the general time of cock - crowing : " Some say , that ever ' gainst that season comes , Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated , spirits roam about in the night , or are obliged COCK - CROWING . 51 ...
... passage , is an exception from the general time of cock - crowing : " Some say , that ever ' gainst that season comes , Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated , spirits roam about in the night , or are obliged COCK - CROWING . 51 ...
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Account of Scotland Æneid alluded ancient antiquity appears barley-break Bartholomew Faire BEAR-BAITING bell body boys bride bridegroom burial buried called ceremony Christian church churchyard cock corpse cuckold curious custom dance dead death deceased Dictionary doth drink Dunmow Edition England English fair fairies feast find the following flowers following passage friends funeral garlands give grave hand hath head Hesperides History honour horns Hudibras husband Ibid John Sanderson King lady London Lord maids marriage married mentioned month's mind neighbours Newcastle-upon-Tyne night nine men's morris observed occasion parish person play pledge Poems poor Poor Robin's Almanack prayers quæ ring Robin Goodfellow Romans rosemary round says Scotland Scottish Language Skimmington soul speaking sport Statistical Account strewed Strutt superstition tells thou tolling torches Translated unto vols wake wedding wine woman word yew-trees young
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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...