 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 páginas
...rule, called it fasting St. Agnes' fast. And on sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the ptomis'J sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. BUN JONSOM. Old Aubrey has a recipe, whereby a lad or lass was to attain a sight of the fortunate lover.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 298 páginas
...in which the article first appeared. "And, on sweet St. Agnes7 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... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 416 páginas
...masques, makes an allusion to this practice. ' And on sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers.' There is another prescription, which is as follows :— 'You must lie in another county, and knit the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1873 - 300 páginas
...purpose of discovering their future husbands. " On sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." — JONSON. The following formula is given in an old author : — " Upon St. Agnes's night, take a... | |
 | Joseph Ritson, William Carew Hazlitt - 1875 - 448 páginas
...daughters, In ' their ' sleep, with shrieks and laughters, And on sweet St Anne's night, Feed them with a promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Fairies, they tell you, have frequently been heard and seen, nay, that there are some living who were... | |
 | John Aubrey - 1881 - 296 páginas
...where he says that the fairy queen Mab can " — on sweet St. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." — Ed.] When the j^ cheeke burns. When the eie-lid itcheth. Mdm. William Fenshaw Esq. told me, that... | |
 | 1882 - 612 páginas
...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.' Mab interrupted his revelations by the command — ' Fairies, pinch him black and blue ; Now you have... | |
 | 1885 - 724 páginas
...Virgins.2 Ben Jonson alludes to the custom : — On sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. And a character in ' Cupid's Whirligig' (1616) says, ' I could find in my heart to pray nine times... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1887 - 420 páginas
...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." CAMEO I. Welcome of the queen. 1603. CAMEO I. Ben Jonsons masque. 1603. Mab interrupted his revelations... | |
 | William Hone - 1888 - 876 páginas
...rule, called it fasting St. Agnes' fast. And on sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promis'J sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. BtX JoNSOy. Old Aubrey has n recipe, whereby a lad or lass was to attain a sight of the fortunate lover.... | |
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And on sweet St Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. 
