Rambles in an Old City: Comprising Antiquarian, Historical, Biographical and Political AssociationsT.C. Newby, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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Página 275 - Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirpings find; I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away ; A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine (for so should huswives do;) Thee first I spied : and the first swain we see, In spite of fortune shall our true love be.
Página 275 - I got five bay-leaves, and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed, ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We also wrote our lovers...
Página 154 - I ever saw ; his candlesticks, snuffers, tongues, fireshovels, and andirons, were silver ; a banquet was given every night after dancing ; and three coaches were employed to fetch ladies every afternoon, the greatest of which would holde fourteen persons, and coste five hundred pound, without the harnasse, which cost six score more.
Página 42 - Friday, there was marvellous solemn service, in which service time, after the Passion was sung, two of the ancient monks took a goodly large crucifix, all of gold, of the picture of our Saviour Christ nailed upon the Cross, laying it upon a velvet cushion, having St.
Página 274 - This morning came up to my wife's bedside, I being up dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be her Valentine ; and brought her name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, done by himself, very pretty ; and we were both well pleased with it. But I am also this year my wife's Valentine, and it will cost me 5/. ; but that I must have laid out if we had not been Valentines.
Página 336 - Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation.
Página 274 - I find that Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my Valentine, she having drawn me; which I was not sorry for, it easing me of something more that I must have given to others...
Página 276 - We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them into water ; and the first that rose up was to be our valentine. Would you think it ? — Mr Blossom was my man. I lay abed and shut my eyes all the morning, till he came to our house ; for I would not have seen another man before him for all the world.