...is sure to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson : — " And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Please you with the promised sight— Some of husbands, some of lovers. Which an empty dream discovers." But another poet has now taken up the creed in good poetic earnest ; and if the superstition should...

...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson:— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. *" The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable...

...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson:— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. 2 " The owl, for all his feathers, wos a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable...

...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson :— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers. Which an empty dream discovers. "" The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable...

...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson:— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. 2" The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable...

...the 26th. "She can start our Franklin's dsughters In her (their) sleep with shrieks and laughters ; And on sweet St Anna's night Feed them with a promised...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Ben Jonson's Masque of the Satyr — Works; vol. vi. p. 472. Upon this, however, Whalley observes,...

...saying a paternoster, sticking a pin in your sleeve, and you will dream of him or her you shall marry." And on sweet St. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Ben Joman'* Satyr, 1603. Brand, who gives these lines without a reference, reads " St. Agnes" in the...

...from her burrows Home, through ponds and water-furrows. She can start our Franklin's daughter In her sleep, with shouts and laughter ; And on sweet St....husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Titania was altogether a more " delicate creature ; '" and had a numerous attendance of maids of honour,...

...She can start our Franklin's daughters, In their sleep, with shouts and laughters ; And on sweet 8t. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised sight, Some...husbands, some of lovers, Which, an empty dream discovers. * Such is Mab ; who Plaits the manes of horses in the night. And bakes the elf-locks, in foul clottish...

...can start our franklins' daughters In their sleep with shrieks and laughters, And on sweet St. Agnes' night Feed them with a promised sight — Some of...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers ; And in hopes that you would come here, Yester eve, the lady Summer,* She invited to a banquet. Fairy....