 | Frederick John Shore - 1837 - 562 pàgines
...as they were setting out. The rhyme is as follows, — I dare say familiar to many of my readers : One for sorrow — two for mirth, Three for a wedding — four for a birth. In many parts of England, and indeed not many miles from London, I firmly believe, that were any one... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pàgines
...Magatipie, and the import of the augury is determined by the number of the hirds that are seen together : " One for sorrow ; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for death." Mr. Park, in a note in his copy of Bourne and Brand's " Popular Antiquities," p. 88, says that... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 308 pàgines
...operation I have more than once seen quite seriously performed. Ill Lancashire they say : One for anger, Two for mirth, Three for a wedding, Four for a birth, Five for rich, Six for poor, Seven for a witch, I can tell you no more. But in Tim Bobbin it is expressly said... | |
 | 1887 - 678 pàgines
...298).— The 3ornish form of this is as follows, and it always, ao far as I know, refers to magpies : — One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a wedding, Four for a birth. The similarity to the Irish form given at the last reference is very interesting. It might be well... | |
 | 1852 - 672 pàgines
...year. The magpie is a well-known bird of omen. The following lines were familiar when I was a boy : " One for sorrow, two for mirth, Three for a wedding, four for death ; Five for a fiddle, six for a dance, Seven for England, eight for France." TD Lambs. — The... | |
 | Edwin Lees - 1856 - 358 pàgines
...— ' Rusticus in luna quem sarcina deprimit una, Monstrat per spinas nulli prodesse rapinas.' " " One for sorrow, Two for mirth ; Three for a wedding, Four for a birth."* It is well known that the pagan priests in heathen times predicted good or evil events from the appearance... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 592 pàgines
...church, but I hardly believe it. That they are birds of omen is well known, witness the old rhyme : One for sorrow, two for mirth ; Three for a wedding, four for a birth. Another bit of folk-lore relates to housemartins, and to old bachelors, whose houses are said to be... | |
 | P.P. - London. - Notes and Queries - 1859 - 386 pàgines
...year. The magpie is a well-known bird of omen. The following lines were familiar when I was a boy : " One for sorrow, two for mirth, Three for a wedding, four for death ; Five for a fiddle, six for a dance, Seven for England, eight for France." TD OMENS FROM BIRDS.... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1861 - 388 pàgines
...the arrival of good news. So says our prose version ; but the poetical narrative runs thus : — " One for sorrow ; two for mirth ; " Three for a wedding ; four for a birth." We still dislike the moaning of owls and the croaking of ravens, as much as the Romans did of old ;... | |
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One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a wedding, Four for a birth. 
