Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, Bind 11849 |
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Side xix
... Cocks • Pancake Customs 53 Maid Marian . 253 62 Robin Hood . 258 Shrovetide , or Shrove Tuesday . 63 Friar Tuck 262 72 The Fool . 263 82 Ash Wednesday St. David's Day St. Patrick's Day • 94 Scarlet , Stokesley , and Little John . 266 ...
... Cocks • Pancake Customs 53 Maid Marian . 253 62 Robin Hood . 258 Shrovetide , or Shrove Tuesday . 63 Friar Tuck 262 72 The Fool . 263 82 Ash Wednesday St. David's Day St. Patrick's Day • 94 Scarlet , Stokesley , and Little John . 266 ...
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... cock's stride . If the grass grows in Janiveer , It grows the worse for't all the year . if According to the Shepherd's Kalender , 1709 , p . 16 , New Year's Day in the morning open with duskey red clouds , it denotes strifes and ...
... cock's stride . If the grass grows in Janiveer , It grows the worse for't all the year . if According to the Shepherd's Kalender , 1709 , p . 16 , New Year's Day in the morning open with duskey red clouds , it denotes strifes and ...
Side 69
... cock - fighting and throwing at cocks appear almost everywhere to have pre- vailed . Fitzstephen , as cited by Stowe , informs us that anciently on Shrove Tuesday the school - boys used to bring cocks of the game , now called game - cocks ...
... cock - fighting and throwing at cocks appear almost everywhere to have pre- vailed . Fitzstephen , as cited by Stowe , informs us that anciently on Shrove Tuesday the school - boys used to bring cocks of the game , now called game - cocks ...
Side 70
... cocks , called Fugees , as their perquisites . ' According to Fitzstephen : " After dinner , all the youths go into ... cock- fighting on Shrove Tuesday . " Hutchinson , in his History of Cumberland , ii . 322 , speak- ing of the parish ...
... cocks , called Fugees , as their perquisites . ' According to Fitzstephen : " After dinner , all the youths go into ... cock- fighting on Shrove Tuesday . " Hutchinson , in his History of Cumberland , ii . 322 , speak- ing of the parish ...
Side 71
... cocks won the most battles was victorious in the cock - pit ; and the prize , a small silver bell , suspended to the button of the victor's hat , and worn for three successive Sundays . After the cock - fight was ended , the foot - ball ...
... cocks won the most battles was victorious in the cock - pit ; and the prize , a small silver bell , suspended to the button of the victor's hat , and worn for three successive Sundays . After the cock - fight was ended , the foot - ball ...
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alluded ancient appears April ashes Bishop bowl boys bread cake called Candlemass candles celebrated ceremony Christ Christmas Christmass church Churchwardens cock cross curious custom dance dayes door doth dressed drink Easter Day Easter Monday eggs England fast feast festival find the following fire flowers Fools garlands Gentleman's Magazine give hand hath Henry History Hobby-horse holy honour John King Lady Leek Lent London Lord Lord of Misrule Maid Marian maids manner May-pole mentioned merry Midsummer Midsummer Eve Monday morning Morris-dance Naogeorgus night observed occasion Palm Sunday pancakes parish passage Payd person play Polydore Vergil poor Poor Robin's Almanack Popish quæ Queen Robin Hood Rogation Roman round Saint says Scotland season Shrove Tuesday singing solemnity song speaking superstition tells thee thou Thursday town unto Valentine Wassail Wassel women word writer Year's yere young
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Side xvii - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Side xvii - The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order...
Side 99 - tis a fast, to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat Unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from strife, From old debate And hate To circumcise thy life. To show a heart grief-rent ; To starve thy sin, Not bin ; And that's to keep thy Lent.
Side 435 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Side 215 - 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. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Side 214 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimmed with trees; see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn, neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Side 471 - COME, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free ; And drink to your hearts' desiring. With the last year's brand Light the new block, and For good success in his spending On your psaltries play, That sweet luck may Come while the log is a-teending.
Side 386 - This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow, Who shall my true love be, the crop shall mow.
Side 149 - made his maund in our Lady's chapel, having fifty-nine poor men, whose feet he washed and kissed ; and, after he had wiped them, he gave every of the said poor men twelve pence in money, three ells of good canvass to make them shirts, a pair of new shoes, a cast of red herrings, and three white herrings ; and one of these had two shillings.
Side 341 - St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.