Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volum 1G. Bell, 1895 |
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... Day , and Plays . 294 All Fools ' Day Shere Thursday , also Maunday Thursday . Good Friday Easter Eve Easter Day . Easter Eggs Easter Holidays Lifting on Easter Holidays PAGE St. Vitus's Day Midsummer Eve . 297 Queen Elizabeth's.
... Day , and Plays . 294 All Fools ' Day Shere Thursday , also Maunday Thursday . Good Friday Easter Eve Easter Day . Easter Eggs Easter Holidays Lifting on Easter Holidays PAGE St. Vitus's Day Midsummer Eve . 297 Queen Elizabeth's.
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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 ...
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... 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 churchwardens ' 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 churchwardens ' accounts of St. Mary - at - Hill , in the City of London , A.D. 1493 , is the follow- ing ...
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ancient Antiquities appears apples April ashes bells Bishop boys cake called Candlemas Candlemass candles celebrated ceremony Christ Christian Christmas Christmass church Churchwardens cock curious custom dance dayes door doth dressed drink Easter Edited eggs England English feast festival find the following fire flowers Fools garlands Gent Gentleman's Magazine give hand hath Henry History Hobby-horse holiday holy honour John King Lady Leek Lent London Lord Lord of Misrule Maid Marian maids manner May-pole mentions merry Midsummer Eve Monday morning Naogeorgus night observed occasion origin Palm Palm Sunday parish passage Payd person play Poems Polydore Vergil poor Poor Robin's Almanack Popish quæ Queen Robin Hood Roman round Saint says Scotland season Shrove Tuesday singing solemnity speaking Stephen's Day Sunday superstition tells thee thou town Translated unto Valentine vols Wassail 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 fixure ! 0, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick.
Side xvii - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy...
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Side 10 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
Side 5 - Text, with various Readings at the foot of the page, and Parallel References in the margin; also a Critical Introduction and Chronological Tables. By an eminent Scholar, with a Greek and English Lexicon. 3rd Edition, revised and corrected. Two Facsimiles of Greek Manuscripts. 900 pages. 5*.
Side 209 - 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 10 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Side 6 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
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