Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Supersititions, Volum 2Charles Knight and Company, 1841 |
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Pàgina 12
... thought that the northern name of the entertainment given on this occasion , i . e . MELL - SUPPER , was derived from the French word mesler , ( 8 ) to mingle or mix together , the master and servant sitting promiscuously at the same ...
... thought that the northern name of the entertainment given on this occasion , i . e . MELL - SUPPER , was derived from the French word mesler , ( 8 ) to mingle or mix together , the master and servant sitting promiscuously at the same ...
Pàgina 22
... thought satisfactory , of the aver- sion which some persons have to cheese . " L'aver- sione qui quelques personnes ont du fromage vient de ci . Quand une Nourice devient grosse , son lait s'epaissit , s'engrummelle et se tourne comme ...
... thought satisfactory , of the aver- sion which some persons have to cheese . " L'aver- sione qui quelques personnes ont du fromage vient de ci . Quand une Nourice devient grosse , son lait s'epaissit , s'engrummelle et se tourne comme ...
Pàgina 23
... thought a time of preparation most fit for the well observing of God's holy day . " In Jacob's History of Faversham , p . 172 , in " Articles for the Sexton of Faversham , " 22 Hen . VIII . I find , " Item , the said Sexton , or his ...
... thought a time of preparation most fit for the well observing of God's holy day . " In Jacob's History of Faversham , p . 172 , in " Articles for the Sexton of Faversham , " 22 Hen . VIII . I find , " Item , the said Sexton , or his ...
Pàgina 24
... thought he was worthe to suffre and bode unshaven unto Monday . This is saide in reproffe of hem that worchen at Afternone on Saturdayes . " The Hallowyng of Saturday Afternoon is thus accounted for in the Dialogue of Dives and Pauper ...
... thought he was worthe to suffre and bode unshaven unto Monday . This is saide in reproffe of hem that worchen at Afternone on Saturdayes . " The Hallowyng of Saturday Afternoon is thus accounted for in the Dialogue of Dives and Pauper ...
Pàgina 25
... thought fit to indulge the humour of the Judaizing Christians so far as to observe the Saturday as a Festival Day of Devotion , and thereon to meet for the exercise of reli gious duties , as is plain from several passages of the ...
... thought fit to indulge the humour of the Judaizing Christians so far as to observe the Saturday as a Festival Day of Devotion , and thereon to meet for the exercise of reli gious duties , as is plain from several passages of the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 31 - 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, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Pàgina 288 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pàgina 233 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Pàgina 288 - O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream; Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Pàgina 292 - Thro' bogs, thro' brakes ; Or else, unseene, with them I go, All in the nicke To play some tricke And frolicke it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meete them like a man ; Sometimes, an ox, sometimes, a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can ; To trip and trot about them round. But if, to ride, My backe they stride, More swift than wind away I go, Ore hedge and lands, Thro...
Pàgina 152 - 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.
Pàgina 288 - Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Pàgina 288 - Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees: O'er ladies...
Pàgina 14 - By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands. Crown'd with the eares of corne, now come, And, to the Pipe, sing Harvest home.
Pàgina 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.