 | Montague Summers - 2001 - 372 pages
...: She can start our Franklin's daughters, In her sleep, with shrieks and laughters. And on sweet S. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised sight —...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. 8. Faith's day Ja favoured in the North of England. Three maidens bake a girdle scone of flour, spring... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 678 pages
...in one of his Masques, refers to this superstition. " And on sweet Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." voL. in. — No. 6. 55 432 Popular Superstitions. [June. Another divinatory method employed by love-sick... | |
 | Belgravia - 1884 - 868 pages
...the 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... | |
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... take a row of pins and pull out every one, one after another, saying a... 
