Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and SupersititionsChatto and Windus, 1900 - 807 Seiten |
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... live . I divers barrels oft have seene , drawne out of water cleare , Through one small blessed bone of this same Martyr heare : And caryed thence to other townes and cities farre away , Ech superstition doth require such earnest kinde ...
... live . I divers barrels oft have seene , drawne out of water cleare , Through one small blessed bone of this same Martyr heare : And caryed thence to other townes and cities farre away , Ech superstition doth require such earnest kinde ...
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... Lives of the Saints , says : " To abolish the heathens ' lewd , superstitious custom of Boys drawing the names of Girls , in honour of their goddess Februata Juno , on the 15th of February , several zealous Pastors substituted the names ...
... Lives of the Saints , says : " To abolish the heathens ' lewd , superstitious custom of Boys drawing the names of Girls , in honour of their goddess Februata Juno , on the 15th of February , several zealous Pastors substituted the names ...
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... live in great and welthie porte : But onyans , browne bread , leekes and salt , must poore men dayly gnaw And fry their oten cakes in oyle . The Pope devisde this law For sinnes , th ' offending people here from hell and death to pull ...
... live in great and welthie porte : But onyans , browne bread , leekes and salt , must poore men dayly gnaw And fry their oten cakes in oyle . The Pope devisde this law For sinnes , th ' offending people here from hell and death to pull ...
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... Lives of the most renowned Saincts of England , Scotland , and Ireland ( Douay , 1632 ) , is this passage : " Their ordinary diet was so farre from all delights , that only bread , herbes , and pure water , were the chiefest dainties ...
... Lives of the most renowned Saincts of England , Scotland , and Ireland ( Douay , 1632 ) , is this passage : " Their ordinary diet was so farre from all delights , that only bread , herbes , and pure water , were the chiefest dainties ...
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... Lives of the most renowned Saincts , quoted before , we read of St David that " he died 1st March , about A.D. 550 , which day , not only in Wales , but all England over , is most famous in memorie of him . But in these our unhappy ...
... Lives of the most renowned Saincts , quoted before , we read of St David that " he died 1st March , about A.D. 550 , which day , not only in Wales , but all England over , is most famous in memorie of him . But in these our unhappy ...
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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.