 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...lines of Ben Jonson allude to this : — And on sweet St. Anna's night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Aubrey, in his Miscellanies, p. 136, directs that, " Upon St. Agnes's Night, you take a row of pins,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1850 - 526 pages
...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 Joiuton'e Satyr, 1603. Brand, who gives these lines without a reference, reads " St. Agnes" in... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...future husbands were to be, used to fast all day. " And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." BEN. JONSON. REMARKABLE EVENTS. 1261. First English Parliament. 1327. Edward III. declared king. 1355.... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1856 - 580 pages
...one of his masks, makes some mention of this : And on Sweet Agnes' night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Now what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer our Lordi instituted in such a way?... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1856 - 586 pages
...one of his masks, makes some mention of this : And on Sweet Agnes' night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. w. what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer our Lord instituted in such a way ? There... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1856 - 576 pages
...one of his masks, makes some mention of this : And on Sweet Agnes' night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Now what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer our Lord instituted in such a way? There... | |
 | John Aubrey - 1857 - 270 pages
...his Masques makes some mention of this. And on sweet Saint Agnes night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Another. To know whom one shall marry. You must lie in another county, and knit the left garter about the right... | |
 | John Timbs - 1859 - 312 pages
...way for maids to dream of their future husbands : As on sweet St. Agnes' night, Plonso you with tho promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Sen Jonson. Aubrey has this account of the ceremony : " Upon St. Agnes' night you take a row of pins,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...to enaue. 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 hafeatheri, wot a-eold." — Could he have seiected an image more warm and comfortable... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...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.... | |
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... take a row of pins and pull out every one, one after another, saying a... 
