 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 pàgines
...Love. * With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.' Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart's name. This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | 1867 - 740 pàgines
...CHAP. II. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turu me thrice, around, around, around, Two hazel nuts, I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name, This with the loudest bounce, me sore amazed That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 pàgines
...wond'rous omen lucky prove, For L is found in Luberkin and love. With my sharp heel I three times mark'd the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around."...hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart's name ; This, with the loudest bounce, one sore amaz'd, That, in a flame of brightest... | |
 | People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pàgines
...be married. Gay mentions the same sort of divination as being practised in England in his time : — Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name : This with tho loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | 1868 - 756 pàgines
...CHAP. II. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice, around, around, around, Two hazel nuts, I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name. This with the loudest bounce, me sore amazed That in a flume of brightest... | |
 | Adalbert Kuhn - 1859 - 340 pàgines
...a double nut, St. Mary's nut, a triple nut. ©jámbete, Edinb. Journ. (5ftob. 1842), ctttrt ®rac: „Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 pàgines
...that they " religiously cracked nuts on Allhallow Eve." Gay thus describes the rustic sacrifice : — Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name : This with the loudest hounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 346 pàgines
...issue of the courtship. The custom, as practised in England, is thus described by Gay in his "Spell"— Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name. This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | A. A. Y. - 1867 - 130 pàgines
..." 2. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around ; Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name; This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 336 pàgines
...a similar purpose both in Scotland and England. Gay describes the latter ceremony as follows : — Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me lore amazed, That in a flame of brightest... | |
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Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the nut, so may thy passion grow ; For 'twas thy nut that did so brightly... 
