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
... Eggs . 168 Sunday Easter Holidays 176 St. Barnabas ' Day Lifting on Easter Holidays 181 • Trinity , or Trinity Sunday , Even ib . Eve of Thursday after Trinity Corpus Christi Day , and Plays . 294 286 293 ib . PAGE PAGE 297 • Queen ...
... Eggs . 168 Sunday Easter Holidays 176 St. Barnabas ' Day Lifting on Easter Holidays 181 • Trinity , or Trinity Sunday , Even ib . Eve of Thursday after Trinity Corpus Christi Day , and Plays . 294 286 293 ib . PAGE PAGE 297 • Queen ...
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... eggs . Hist . de la Fête Dieu , p . 100. " To beare their candels soberly , and to offer them to the saintes , not of God's makynge , but the carvers and paynters , " is men- tioned among the Roman Catholic customs censured by John Bale ...
... eggs . Hist . de la Fête Dieu , p . 100. " To beare their candels soberly , and to offer them to the saintes , not of God's makynge , but the carvers and paynters , " is men- tioned among the Roman Catholic customs censured by John Bale ...
Side 58
... egg hard , and took out the yolk , and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed , eat it shell and all , without speaking or drink- ing after it . We also wrote our lovers ' names upon bits of paper , and rolled them up in clay ...
... egg hard , and took out the yolk , and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed , eat it shell and all , without speaking or drink- ing after it . We also wrote our lovers ' names upon bits of paper , and rolled them up in clay ...
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... Eggs and collops compose a usual dish at dinner on this day , as pancakes do on the following , from which customs they have plainly derived their names . It should seem that on Collop Monday they took their leave of flesh in the papal ...
... Eggs and collops compose a usual dish at dinner on this day , as pancakes do on the following , from which customs they have plainly derived their names . It should seem that on Collop Monday they took their leave of flesh in the papal ...
Side 64
... Egg - Feast . Perhaps the same as our Collop Monday . See , under Paste Eggs , Hyde's Account of the Festum Ovorum . In the church wardens ' accounts of St. Mary - at - Hill , in the City of London , A.D. 1493 , is the follow- ing ...
... Egg - Feast . Perhaps the same as our Collop Monday . See , under Paste Eggs , Hyde's Account of the Festum Ovorum . In the church wardens ' accounts of St. Mary - at - Hill , in the City of London , A.D. 1493 , is the follow- ing ...
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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.