Instructions for Parish PriestsEarly English Text Society, 1868 - 103 pages |
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Page 92 - Now turn again, turn again, said the pinder, For a wrong way you have gone ; For you have forsaken the kings highway, And made a path over the corn. O that were a shame, said jolly Robin, We being three and thou but one. The pinder leapt back then thirty good foot, Twas thirty good foot and one.
Page 80 - it says : " shall be found in the bread of a baker in the city, the first time, let him be drawn upon a hurdle from the Guildhall to his own house through the great streets, where there be most people assembled, and through the great streets which are most dirty, with the faulty loaf hanging from his neck; if a second time he shall be found committing the same offence, let him be drawn from the Guildhall through the great street of...
Page 92 - When any dieth certaine women singe a songe to the dead body, recyting the jorney that the partie deceased must goe ; and they are of beleife (such is their fondnesse) that once in their lives yt is good to give a...
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Page 80 - City, the first time let him be drawn upon a hurdle from the Guildhall to his own house, through the great streets, where there may be most people assembled, and through the great streets that are most dirty, with the faulty loaf hanging from his neck.
Page 95 - Two different Versions of Piers Plowman, in separate editions. To be edited from the MSS. by the Rev. WW Skeat, MA Lydgate's Works.
Page 90 - Yorkshire, to this day, they continue the custom of watching and sitting up all night till the body is interred. In the interim some kneel down and pray (by the corpse) some play at cards, some drink and take tobacco: they have also inimical plays and sports eg they choose a simple young fellow to be a judge, then the suppliants (having first blacked their hands by rubbing it under the bottom of the pot), beseech his Lordship: and smut...