Devon Notes and Queries, Volume 2, Part 1Peter Fabyan Sparke Amery, John S. Amery, Joshua Brooking Rowe J. G. Commin, 1903 - Cornwall (England : County) |
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Page 207 - WASSAIL the trees, that they may bear You many a plum and many a pear ; For more or less fruits they will bring As you do give them wassailing.
Page 208 - This done, they return to the house, the doors of which they are sure to find bolted by the females, who, be the weather what it may, are inexorable to all entreaties to open them till some one has guessed at what is on the spit, which is generally some nice little thing, difficult to be hit on, and is the reward of him who first names it. The doors are then thrown open, and the lucky clodpole receives the tit-bit as his recompense. Some are so superstitious as to believe, that if they neglect this...
Page 56 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, that they may rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them
Page 207 - Watsail — a drinking song on twelfth-day eve, throwing toast to the apple-trees, in order to have a fruitful year, which seems to be a relic 01 the heathen sacrifice to Pomona.
Page 27 - There are two holes for the arms, and a glass about four inches diameter, and an inch and a quarter thick to look thro', which is fixed in the bottom part, so as to be in a direct line with the eye, two air-holes upon the upper part, into one of which air is conveyed by a pair of bellows, both which are stopt with plugs immediately before going down to the bottom. At the foot part there's a hole to let out water. Sometimes there's a large rope fixed to the back or upper part, by which it...
Page 207 - 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...
Page 93 - Leache, who ia as much lamented in these parts, as any man hath been these many years. And truly, I think, very justly, having great ground to conclude that God hath sanctified his dispensations towards him unto his soul, by several passages before and since his death, and that he would have prov'da great instrument of God's glory, and of good unto his country, had it been the will of God to have granted him a long life. But, blessed be God, howsoever he disposeth of us : for his dealings with us...
Page 26 - ... going in admitted a small quantity of water, it was no inconvenience. After this outer door was shut he opened the inner one to get into his boat. " ' There was more than fourscore weight of lead to the bottom of his boat (but this I presume must he according to the dimensions of the boat).
Page 27 - ... water. I lie straight upon my breast all the time I am in the engine, which hath many times been more than six hours, being frequently refreshed upon the surface by a pair of bellows. I can move it about 12 foot square at the bottom, where I have stayed many times 34 minutes. I have been ten fathoms deep many a hundred times, and have been 12 fathom, but with great difficulty.