English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places and Persons, Customs, Superstitions, EtcKegan Paul, 1892 - 565 pagine |
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ancient Antiquities apples April bells of St Berkshire birds bless boys bread butter cake called charm Cheshire child Christ Christmas church corn Cornwall couplet crow cuckoo custom devil Devonshire door drink eggs England finger flowers Folklore Friday Garland girl give Gloucestershire hand Here's Herefordshire hill Ingleborough Jesus King kiss lady Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire lines London Lord maid Market Drayton master merry Midlands miles mother never night North Northamptonshire Notes and Queries Nursery Rhymes Oswestry parish penny players poor pray proverb pudding quoting rain repeat rhyme ride ring round runs Sally Say the bells Shropshire Shrove Tuesday sing sneeze song soul Staffordshire stand stick stone Suffolk Sunday Sussex thee thou Tibberton town tree Valentine verse Warwickshire wassail West Worcestershire word wren Yorkshire young
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Pagina 145 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Pagina 183 - Wassail ! Wassail ! all over the town, Our toast it is white, our ale it is brown : Our bowl it is made of a maplin tree, We be good fellows all ; I drink to thee.
Pagina 240 - Remember us poor mayers all, And thus we do begin To lead our lives in righteousness, Or else we die in sin. We have been rambling all this night And almost all this day, And now returned back again We have brought you a branch of may. A branch of may we have brought you And at your door it stands. It is but a sprout But it's well budded out By the work of our Lord's hands.
Pagina 183 - I wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year, A pocket full of money, And a cellar full of beer," And a good fat pig to serve you all the year.
Pagina 251 - ... incontinency she forfeits her estate ; yet if she will come into the court riding backward upon a black ram, with his tail in her hand, and say the words following, the steward is bound by the custom to re-admit her to her freebench.
Pagina 210 - severely forbad the custom of Valentines, or giving Boys in writing the names of Girls to be admired and attended on by them ; and, to abolish it, he changed it into giving billets with the names of certain Saints, for them to...
Pagina 217 - God bless the master of this house, and the mistress also, And all the little children that round the table go...
Pagina 164 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Pagina 97 - Carter," ran the companion missive, " prays you all that ye make a good end of that ye have begun, and do well, and aye better and better ; for at the even men heareth the day."
Pagina 425 - Hey, my kitten, hey, my kitten, And hey, my kitten, my deary ! Such a sweet pet as this Was neither far nor neary. Here we go up, up, up, And here we go down, down, down, And here we go backwards and forwards, And here we go round, round, roundy.