Folk Rhymes of DevonJ. G. Commin, 1911 - 156 páginas |
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Folk Rhymes of Devon: Notices of the Metrical Sayings Found in the Lore of ... William Crossing Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 140 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full! caps full! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Página 142 - Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns.
Página 134 - Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, And a child that is born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay.
Página 149 - All hail to the moon, all hail to thee ; I prithee, good moon, reveal to me This night who my husband shall be.
Página 145 - If New Year's Eve night- wind blow south It betokeneth warmth and growth ; If west, much milk and fish in the sea ; If north, much cold and storms there will be ; If east, the trees will bear much fruit ; If north-east, flee it man and brute.
Página 153 - ... and convinced, even on her bridal day, that she could neither forget her old love nor be happy with her new, to whom her father had given her hand, she wrote a letter revealing the secret of her soul, and begging to be buried near William. On the envelope were these words beneath a black seal : — " When I am dead and cold, Then let the truth be told.
Página 3 - ... of Devon ; and then landed at Watchet, and there wrought much evil by burning and by man-slaying. And after that they again went about...
Página 70 - Yea, it is averred, and there want not proofs to maintain it, that it came little short of some cities; for they can shew you where the gates stood, and also the foundation of the walls that incircled it, compacted of moorstone and lime, which they lighted on as they digged their fields; whereof may be said : Waste lye the walls that were so good, And corn now grows where Troy stood.
Página 143 - Here is a barbarous string of rhymes to stop an effusion of blood : " Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Baptized in river Jordan, when The water was wild in the wood, The person was just and good, God spake, and the water stood And so shall now thy blood — " In the name of the Father, Son, &c.
Página 113 - I did this year — is considered a marvellous sign of ill luck. Some unlettered muse of our county has thus, truly enough, expressed his peculiarities in rhyme. In the month of April, He opens his bill ; In the month of May, He singeth all day ; In the month of June, He alters his tune ; In the month of July, Away he doth fly.