Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Band 1G. Bell, 1895 |
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... Thou hast thy eves and holidayes : Thy wakes , thy quintels , here thou hast , Thy May - poles too , with garlands grac't : Thy Morris - dance ; thy Whitsun ale ; Thy shearing feast , which never faile . Thy Harvest Home ; thy Wassaile ...
... Thou hast thy eves and holidayes : Thy wakes , thy quintels , here thou hast , Thy May - poles too , with garlands grac't : Thy Morris - dance ; thy Whitsun ale ; Thy shearing feast , which never faile . Thy Harvest Home ; thy Wassaile ...
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... thou aayst bud , and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full ! caps full ! Bushel - bushel - sacks full , And my pockets full too ! Huzza ! " This done , they return to the house , the doors of which ...
... thou aayst bud , and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full ! caps full ! Bushel - bushel - sacks full , And my pockets full too ! Huzza ! " This done , they return to the house , the doors of which ...
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... thou goest into thy bed , thou must be sure to put on a clean shift , and the best thou hast , then the better thou mayst speed . And when thou liest down , lay thy right hand under thy head , saying these words , Now the god of Love ...
... thou goest into thy bed , thou must be sure to put on a clean shift , and the best thou hast , then the better thou mayst speed . And when thou liest down , lay thy right hand under thy head , saying these words , Now the god of Love ...
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... thou awakest out of thy first sleep thou shalt see him come and stand before thee , and thou shalt perceive by his habit what tradesman he is ; but be sure thou declarest not thy dream to anybody in ten days , and by that time thou ...
... thou awakest out of thy first sleep thou shalt see him come and stand before thee , and thou shalt perceive by his habit what tradesman he is ; but be sure thou declarest not thy dream to anybody in ten days , and by that time thou ...
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... thou this creature of a waxen taper at our humble supplication , and by the vertue of the holy crosse , pour thou into it an heavenly See on this subject Dupré's Conformity between Ancient and Modern Ceremonies , ' p . 96 , and ...
... thou this creature of a waxen taper at our humble supplication , and by the vertue of the holy crosse , pour thou into it an heavenly See on this subject Dupré's Conformity between Ancient and Modern Ceremonies , ' p . 96 , and ...
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ancient Antiquities appears apples April ashes bells Bishop boys cake called Candlemas Candlemass candles celebrated ceremony Christ Christian Christmas Christmass church Churchwardens cock curious custom dance dayes door doth dressed drink Easter Edited eggs England English feast festival find the following fire flowers Fools garlands Gent Gentleman's Magazine give hand hath Henry History Hobby-horse holiday holy honour John King Lady Leek Lent London Lord Lord of Misrule Maid Marian maids manner May-pole mentions merry Midsummer Eve Monday morning Naogeorgus night observed occasion origin Palm Palm Sunday parish passage Payd person play Poems Polydore Vergil poor Poor Robin's Almanack Popish quæ Queen Robin Hood Roman round Saint says Scotland season Shrove Tuesday singing solemnity speaking Stephen's Day Sunday superstition tells thee thou town Translated unto Valentine vols Wassail women word writer Year's yere young
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Seite xvii - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad. But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure ! 0, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick.
Seite xvii - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy...
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