Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volumen2Bohn, 1849 |
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... Rosemary and Bays at Weddings 119 Garlands at Weddings . Gloves at Weddings Garters at Weddings Laying - out or Streeking the Body 231 Funeral Entertainments 237 Funerals in the Church - Porch . 245 Sin Eaters . 123 · · . 125 Mortuaries ...
... Rosemary and Bays at Weddings 119 Garlands at Weddings . Gloves at Weddings Garters at Weddings Laying - out or Streeking the Body 231 Funeral Entertainments 237 Funerals in the Church - Porch . 245 Sin Eaters . 123 · · . 125 Mortuaries ...
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... rosemary tied about their silken sleeves ; the one was Sir Thomas Parry , the other Sir Francis Hungerford . " In the old play of A Woman is a Weathercocke , act i , sc . 1 . on a marriage going to be solemnized , Count Fredericke says ...
... rosemary tied about their silken sleeves ; the one was Sir Thomas Parry , the other Sir Francis Hungerford . " In the old play of A Woman is a Weathercocke , act i , sc . 1 . on a marriage going to be solemnized , Count Fredericke says ...
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... rosemary , gilded very fair , and hung about with silken ribbands of all colours . " It is remarkable that Strutt ( i . 77 ) should be at a loss to explain a man with a cup in his hand , in plate xiii . fig . 1 , representing a marriage ...
... rosemary , gilded very fair , and hung about with silken ribbands of all colours . " It is remarkable that Strutt ( i . 77 ) should be at a loss to explain a man with a cup in his hand , in plate xiii . fig . 1 , representing a marriage ...
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... day of thanksgiving for the victorie over the Scots at Worcester , 78. Item , paid for hearbes and lawrell that were strewed in the church the same day , 8s . " ROSEMARY AND BAYS AT WEDDINGS . ROSEMARY , which was 118 MARRIAGE CUSTOMS .
... day of thanksgiving for the victorie over the Scots at Worcester , 78. Item , paid for hearbes and lawrell that were strewed in the church the same day , 8s . " ROSEMARY AND BAYS AT WEDDINGS . ROSEMARY , which was 118 MARRIAGE CUSTOMS .
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... ROSEMARY AND BAYS AT WEDDINGS . ROSEMARY , which was anciently thought to strengthen the memory , was not only carried at funerals , but also worn at weddings . Herrick , in his Hesperides , p . 273 , has the fol- lowing lines on the ...
... ROSEMARY AND BAYS AT WEDDINGS . ROSEMARY , which was anciently thought to strengthen the memory , was not only carried at funerals , but also worn at weddings . Herrick , in his Hesperides , p . 273 , has the fol- lowing lines on the ...
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Account of Scotland Æneid alluded ancient antiquity appears barley-break Bartholomew Faire bell bride bridegroom burial buried cake called ceremony Christians church churchyard cock corpse cuckold curious custom dance dead death deceased devil doth drink Dunmow England fair fairies feast find the following flowers following passage formerly friends funeral garlands give gloves grave hand harvest hath head Herrick's Hesperides Hesperides History History of Northamptonshire holy honour horns Hudibras husband Ibid 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 Robin's Almanack prayers quæ ring Robin Goodfellow Romans rosemary round says Scotland Scottish Language Skimmington speaking sport Statistical Account strewed Strutt superstition supposed tells thou unlucky unto vulgar wake wedding wife wine woman women word yew-trees young
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Página 245 - ... 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.
Página 490 - 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...
Página 495 - 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 sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail Tickling a parson's nose as a...
Página 486 - 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.
Página 262 - 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.
Página 511 - 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.
Página 226 - Candlesticks, which have been borrowed perhaps at five miles distance, as many candles as the poor person can beg or borrow, observing always to have an odd number. Pipes and Tobacco are first distributed, and then, according to the ability of the deceased, Cakes and Ale, and sometimes Whiskey, are dealt to the company — * Deal on, deal on, my merry men all.
Página 262 - Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: 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.
Página 382 - St. Keyne," quoth the Cornishman, "many a time Drank of this crystal Well ; And before the angel summoned her She laid on the water a spell : " If the husband, of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man henceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Página 290 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...