The Dialect and Folk-lore of NorthamptonshireJ.R. Smith, 1851 - 200 pagina's |
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Pagina 58 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Pagina 171 - In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, fire in his mouth, and a tail...
Pagina 142 - And frolic it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if to ride My back they stride, More swift than wind away I go, O'er hedge and lands, Through pools and ponds, I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Pagina ix - as good English as any shire in England, because, though in the singing psalms, some words are used to make the metre unknown to us, yet the last translation of the Bible, which no doubt was done by those learned men in the best English, agreeth perfectly with the common speech of our country.
Pagina 174 - But the old beechen bowl, that once supplied The feast of furmety, is thrown aside ; And the old freedom that was living then, When masters made them merry with their men...
Pagina 179 - Wherein is set forth the rudeness, profaneness, stealing, drinking, fighting, dancing, whoring, mis-rule, mis-spence of precious time, contempt of God, and godly Magistrates, Ministers and People, which oppose the Rascality and rout, in this their open prophaneness, and Heathenish Customs.
Pagina 174 - tween love and shame. Her " clipping posies" as his yearly claim. He rises, to obtain the custom'd kiss : — With stifled smiles, half hankering after bliss, She shrinks away, and blushing, calls it rude ; Yet turns to smile, and hopes to be pursued • While one, to whom the hint may be applied, Follows to gain it, and is not denied.
Pagina 153 - In order to be rid of the painful tumour on the eyelid, provincially known as the west or sty, it is customary for the sufferer, on the first night of the new moon, to procure the tail of a black cat, and after pulling from it one hair, rub the tip nine times over the pustule. As this has a very cabalistic look, and is moreover frequently attended with sundry severe scratches, a gold ring is found to be a much more harmless substitute ; and as it is said to be equally beneficial with the former,...
Pagina 160 - faire and happy milkmaid," observes, "thus lives she, and all her care is, that she may die in the spring time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet.
Pagina 191 - To walke nightly, as do the men fayries, we use not ; but now and then we goe together, and at good huswives fires we warme and dresse our fayry children. If wee find cleane water and cleane towels, wee leave them money, either in their basons or in their shooes ; but if wee find no cleane water in their houses, we wash our children in their pottage, milke or beere, or what-ere we finde...