 | English Dialect Society - 1883 - 490 pàgines
...Teening, 314. See Candle-teening. ' Wash your hands, or else the fire Will not teend to your desire.' ' Part must be kept wherewith to teend The Christmas log next yeare' ' Come while the log is teending.' Herriok (author of ' Cherry Ripe '), ' Hesperides,' AD 1620. ' Ne... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1885 - 336 pàgines
...Candlemas Day, the festivities were to conclude with an anticipation of next Christmas-tide : — " Kindle the Christmas Brand, and then Till Sunne-set...; And where 'tis safely kept, the Fiend Can do no mischiefe (there)." * Christmcu In and Out ; or, Our Lord and Saviour Christ's Birthday, 1652. ON SOME... | |
 | William Hone - 1888 - 876 pàgines
...pye. And let all sports with Christmas dye. * v « Kindle the Christmas Brand, and then Till bunne-stt let it burne. Which quencht. then lay it up agen, Till Christmas next returne. Part mu-t lie kept whercwit'i to teend The Christmas Log next yeare , And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1893 - 338 pàgines
...do's hold ; New things succeed, as former things grow old. 894. THE CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE DAY. KINDLE the Christmas Brand and then Till Sunne-set,...; And where 'tis safely kept, the Fiend, Can do no mischiefe (there.) 895. UPON CANDLEMASSE DAY. END now the White-loafe, & the Pye, And let all sports... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pàgines
...previous year. Herrick writes: * Kindle the Christmas brand, and then Till sunneset let it hurne ; Which quencht, then lay it up agen, Till Christmas...And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend ' Can do no mischief there." A similar custom was retained on the Continent called Souche de Noel. In Norfolk and... | |
 | John Brand - 1895 - 602 pàgines
...also mentioned in p. 337 : — " Kindle the Cln-islmat brand, and theu Till sunne-set let it burne j Which quencht, then lay it up agen Till Christmas next returne. Part must be kept wherewith to teend1 The Chriitmai Log next yeare ; And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend Can do no mischiefe there."... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 512 pàgines
...towne, This 'mongst other mystick charms Keeps the sleeping child from harms. K YULE-LOG CEREMONY INDLE the Christmas brand, and then Till sunne-set, let...yeare; And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend Can do no mischiefe there. THE CHANGELING From 'A Pleasant Treatise on Witchcraft. ' English variant of the almost... | |
 | 1897 - 1030 pàgines
...portion of the charred Yule block carefully preserved from the preceding Christmas for this purpose : Kindle the Christmas brand, and then Till sunneset...quencht, then lay it up agen, Till Christmas next rcturne. Part must be kept, wherewith to teend The Christmas log next yeare ; And where 'tis safely... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1899 - 230 pàgines
...turne do's hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. THE CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE DAY. KINDLE the Christmas Brand and then Till Sunne-set,...; And where 'tis safely kept, the Fiend, Can do no mischiefe (there). UPON CANDLEMASSE DAY. END now the White-loafe, & the Pye, And let all sports with... | |
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KINDLE the Christmas brand, and then Till sunne-set let it burne ; Which quencht, then lay it up agen, Till Christmas next returne. Part must be kept wherewith to teend * The Christmas log next yeare ; And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend Can do no mischiefe... 
