Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and SupersititionsChatto and Windus, 1900 - 807 Seiten |
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... Dance ... ... : DECKING Churches anD HOUSES WITH EVERGREENS AT CHRIST- MAS ... ... ... YULE DOUGHS , MINCE PIES , CHRISTMAS PIES , AND PLUM PORRIDGE ... ... ST STEPHEN'S DAY ( December 26th ) ... ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST ( December 27th ) ...
... Dance ... ... : DECKING Churches anD HOUSES WITH EVERGREENS AT CHRIST- MAS ... ... ... YULE DOUGHS , MINCE PIES , CHRISTMAS PIES , AND PLUM PORRIDGE ... ... ST STEPHEN'S DAY ( December 26th ) ... ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST ( December 27th ) ...
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... dancing , and such like enterludes , wherein fidlers and others acted lascivious effeminate parts , and went about their towns and cities in women's apparrell whence the whole catholicke church ( as Alchuvinus , with others write ) ...
... dancing , and such like enterludes , wherein fidlers and others acted lascivious effeminate parts , and went about their towns and cities in women's apparrell whence the whole catholicke church ( as Alchuvinus , with others write ) ...
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John Brand, Henry Ellis. the first day of the year , and dancing with moon - light , with no other music than their own singing . " In the same work for 1795 , the minister of Tillicoultry , in the county of Clackmannan , under the head ...
John Brand, Henry Ellis. the first day of the year , and dancing with moon - light , with no other music than their own singing . " In the same work for 1795 , the minister of Tillicoultry , in the county of Clackmannan , under the head ...
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... Dance ; thy Whitsun Ale ; Thy Shearing Feast , which never faile , Thy Harvest Home ; thy Wassaile Bowle , That's tost up after Fox - i ' - th ' - Hole ; Thy Mummeries : thy Twelfe - tide Kings And Queens : thy Christmas revellings ...
... Dance ; thy Whitsun Ale ; Thy Shearing Feast , which never faile , Thy Harvest Home ; thy Wassaile Bowle , That's tost up after Fox - i ' - th ' - Hole ; Thy Mummeries : thy Twelfe - tide Kings And Queens : thy Christmas revellings ...
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... dance Moll Dixon's round ; And having tried each shop and stall , And disappointed at them all , * " And one mornyng timely he tooke in hande To make to my house a sleeveles errande . ' HEYWOOD . Skinner guesses this to mean a lifeless ...
... dance Moll Dixon's round ; And having tried each shop and stall , And disappointed at them all , * " And one mornyng timely he tooke in hande To make to my house a sleeveles errande . ' HEYWOOD . Skinner guesses this to mean a lifeless ...
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Seite 553 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Seite 311 - 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, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Seite 553 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams ; Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her...
Seite 444 - 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 1 My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Seite 434 - ... 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 114 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Seite 608 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Seite 313 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Seite 657 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Seite 736 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.