Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and SupersititionsChatto and Windus, 1900 - 807 pàgines |
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... Horse ROYAL OAK DAY ( May 29th ) TRINITY , OR TRINITY SUNDAY , EVEN EVE OF THURsday after TRINITY SUNDAY ST BARNABAS ' DAY ( June 11th ) CORPUS CHRISTI DAY , AND PLAYS ( June 14th ) ST VITUS'S DAY ( June 15th ) SUMMER SOLSTICE ...
... Horse ROYAL OAK DAY ( May 29th ) TRINITY , OR TRINITY SUNDAY , EVEN EVE OF THURsday after TRINITY SUNDAY ST BARNABAS ' DAY ( June 11th ) CORPUS CHRISTI DAY , AND PLAYS ( June 14th ) ST VITUS'S DAY ( June 15th ) SUMMER SOLSTICE ...
Pàgina xi
... Horse at Christmas ... Christmas Box ... SPORTS AND Games at CHRISTMAS— The Lord of Misrule ... Fool Plough and Sword Dance ... ... : DECKING Churches anD HOUSES WITH EVERGREENS AT CHRIST- MAS ... ... ... YULE DOUGHS , MINCE PIES ...
... Horse at Christmas ... Christmas Box ... SPORTS AND Games at CHRISTMAS— The Lord of Misrule ... Fool Plough and Sword Dance ... ... : DECKING Churches anD HOUSES WITH EVERGREENS AT CHRIST- MAS ... ... ... YULE DOUGHS , MINCE PIES ...
Pàgina 4
... horse . § The name of a cow . The name of another horse . Come , butler , come bring us a bowl of NEW YEAR'S EVE .
... horse . § The name of a cow . The name of another horse . Come , butler , come bring us a bowl of NEW YEAR'S EVE .
Pàgina 41
... horse - bells about him ; the rest of the fellows are blinded , and have boughs in their hands , with which they chase this fellow and his Hen about some large court or small enclosure . The fellow with his Hen and bells shifting as ...
... horse - bells about him ; the rest of the fellows are blinded , and have boughs in their hands , with which they chase this fellow and his Hen about some large court or small enclosure . The fellow with his Hen and bells shifting as ...
Pàgina 41
... with a flail , as bein longer good for anything . If t he got her pains . hit the hen , and consequently killed mediate Christ Tale , ring the stored ZRATE TUESDAY . who has also some horse - bells. 40 SHROVE TUESDAY .
... with a flail , as bein longer good for anything . If t he got her pains . hit the hen , and consequently killed mediate Christ Tale , ring the stored ZRATE TUESDAY . who has also some horse - bells. 40 SHROVE TUESDAY .
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 736 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.