Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Supersititions, Band 2Charles Knight and Company, 1841 |
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... Drinking Wine in the Church at Marriages The Nuptial Kiss in the Church Care Cloth Winning the Kail • · Garlands in Country Churches , & c . Minnyng Days , Mynde Days , or Month's Mind Of Bowing towards the Altar 184 192 · 194 Drinking ...
... Drinking Wine in the Church at Marriages The Nuptial Kiss in the Church Care Cloth Winning the Kail • · Garlands in Country Churches , & c . Minnyng Days , Mynde Days , or Month's Mind Of Bowing towards the Altar 184 192 · 194 Drinking ...
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... drinking . Thus also they spend a day or two afterwards in all sorts of rural pastimes and exercises , such as dancing on the green , wrestling , cudgelling , & c . Great numbers attending at these Wakes , by degrees less devotion and ...
... drinking . Thus also they spend a day or two afterwards in all sorts of rural pastimes and exercises , such as dancing on the green , wrestling , cudgelling , & c . Great numbers attending at these Wakes , by degrees less devotion and ...
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... drinking fit for the time . Here they used to end many quarrels between neighbour and neighbour . Hither came the wives in comely manner : and they which were of the better sort had their mantles car- ried with them , as well for show ...
... drinking fit for the time . Here they used to end many quarrels between neighbour and neighbour . Hither came the wives in comely manner : and they which were of the better sort had their mantles car- ried with them , as well for show ...
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... drinking drie The cuppes , a prince he is , and holdes their heades that speewing lie . " In " Hinde's Life of John ... drink . " Of Cheshire , Dr. Gower , in his " Sketch of the Materials for a History of that County , " tells us : " I ...
... drinking drie The cuppes , a prince he is , and holdes their heades that speewing lie . " In " Hinde's Life of John ... drink . " Of Cheshire , Dr. Gower , in his " Sketch of the Materials for a History of that County , " tells us : " I ...
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... drink , which , with a little tobacco and their VOL . II . screaming for their largesses , their business I will soon be done . " In another part of Tusser's work , under " The Ploughman's Feast Days , " are these lines : " For all this ...
... drink , which , with a little tobacco and their VOL . II . screaming for their largesses , their business I will soon be done . " In another part of Tusser's work , under " The Ploughman's Feast Days , " are these lines : " For all this ...
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Seite 31 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day ; and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Seite 288 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Seite 233 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Seite 288 - O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream; Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Seite 292 - Thro' bogs, thro' brakes ; Or else, unseene, with them I go, All in the nicke To play some tricke And frolicke it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meete them like a man ; Sometimes, an ox, sometimes, a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can ; To trip and trot about them round. But if, to ride, My backe they stride, More swift than wind away I go, Ore hedge and lands, Thro...
Seite 152 - 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.
Seite 288 - Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Seite 288 - Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees: O'er ladies...
Seite 14 - By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands. Crown'd with the eares of corne, now come, And, to the Pipe, sing Harvest home.
Seite 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.