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" No ceremony was omitted of bridecakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever since the livery of the Court ; and at night there was sewing into the sheet, casting off the bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries. "
Contains the earls to the termination of the seventeenth century - Page 130
by Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812
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The Plays of Philip Massinger ...

Philip Massinger - English drama - 1805 - 540 pages
...good time in or upon the bed; chuse which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bride-cakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever...bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries.* Jan. 1603." * There is an allusion to one of these " petty sorcefies" in the speech of Mirtilla, Guardian,...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3

John Walker - 1811 - 572 pages
...good time in or upon the bed, chnse which vou will believe. No ceremony was omitted 'of bride-cakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever.../casting off the bride's left hose, with many other pretty sorceries. The next day the King played in the presence, and, as good or ill luck seldom comes...
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Secret History of the Court of James the First ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1811 - 520 pages
...good time in or upon the bed, chuse which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bride-cakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever...at night there was sewing into the sheet, casting of the bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries." — WINWOOD'S Memorialist II. 43. And,...
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The court and character of King James, cont'd

Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 536 pages
...chuse which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bride-cakes, points, garters, and glares, which have been ever since the livery of the court...at night there was sewing into the sheet, casting of the bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries." — WINWOOD'S MemorialU, II. 48. And, to...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...good time in or upon the led; chuse which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bride cakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever...writes Lord Shrewsbury : " My Lord of Pembroke is wt-ll ; and surely is as honorable a kind husband as any is in Great Briltayne. My Lady much joyes...
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Plays: Advertisement to the second edition. Introduction; Essay on the ...

Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 pages
...good time in or upon the bed ; chuse which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bride-cakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever...bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries.* Jan. 1605." 1 Lady Susan Fere,] To this lady Jonson addressed the poem beginning, • * There is an...
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The Plays of Philip Massinger,: Advertisement to the second edition ...

Philip Massinger - 1813 - 542 pages
...good time in or upon the bed; chuse which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bride-cakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever...night there was sewing into the sheet, casting off tl.e bruit's left hose, with many other petty sorceries.* Jan. l60.>." a considerable amount, and soon...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...good time in or upon the bed, choose which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bridecakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever...livery of the court ; and at night there was sewing in the sheet, casting of the bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries." Such were most of...
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Memoirs of the Embassy of the Marshal de Bassompierre to the ..., Issue 148

François de Bassompierre - France - 1819 - 184 pages
...good time in or upon the bed — chuse which you will believe. No ceremony was omitted of bridecakes, points, garters, and gloves, which have been ever...bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries." Win. ii. 43. He was shortly afterwards, 4th June, 3 James I., terwards the ambassador of the King of...
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Blighted Ambition, Or, The Rise and Fall of the Earl of Somerset: A Romance ...

1822 - 362 pages
...having been omitted of bride-cakes, points, garters, and gloves ; but the rarest part of all the sport was sewing into the sheet, casting off the bride's left hose, with many other petty sorceries, which, though curious, are unseemly. There was, however, no small loss that night in chains and jewels,...
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