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Seite 396 - The after part of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May-pole; which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands there, as it were consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered it in the whole circle of the year.
Seite 386 - This I give to thee, O fox ! spare thou my lambs; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, O eagle !' When the ceremony is over, they dine on the caudle; and after the feast is finished, what is left is hid by two persons deputed for that purpose; but on the next Sunday they re-assemble, and finish the reliques of the first entertainment.
Seite xxiii - Rich in corn, productive of fruits, in some parts by the sole favour of nature, in others by the art of cultivation, enticing even the lazy to industry, by the prospect of a hundred-fold return.
Seite 48 - ... around one of which, made larger than the rest, they drink a cheerful glass of cider to their master's health...
Seite 396 - ... and dance about it, as the heathen people did at the dedication of their idols, whereof this is a perfect pattern, or rather the thing itself.
Seite 396 - On the calends, or the first day of May, commonly called May-day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk 'to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns; where they break down branches from the trees, and adorn them with nosegays and crowns of flowers.
Seite cxviii - Gules, on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchy, argent, an escutcheon or, charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure, flory counter-flory...
Seite lxxxix - ... not so when agriculture, in its general progress (as is often unfortunately the case) interferes with picturesqueness, or beauty. The painter may indeed lament; but that science, which of all others most benefits mankind, has a right to more than his forgiveness, when wild thickets are converted into scenes of plenty and industry, and when gypsies and vagrants give way to the less picturesque figures of husbandmen, and their attendants.
Seite 396 - May, commonly called May-day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk 'to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns; where they break down branches from the trees, and adorn them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. When this is done they return with their booty homewards, about the rising of the sun, and make their doors and windows to triumph in the flowery spoil. The...
Seite 394 - ... of mercy, and the great reverence and devotion which the prince bears to the place whereunto he grants such privilege. Among all nations our ancient kings of England seem to have attributed most to those sanctuaries, permitting them to shelter such as had committed both felonies and treasons ; so as within forty days they acknowledged their fault, and submitted themselves to banishment, during which space, if any layman expelled them, he was excommunicated ; and if a clerk he was made irregular....