| John Brand - 1810 - 508 psl.
...of his * Mr, Gay describes some other rustic Methods of Divination on this Head: Thus with Peascods: As Peascods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to see One that was c\ose]yfill'd with three Times three; "Which when 1 cropt, I safely home convey'd, Arid o'er tiie Door... | |
| John Wade - 1824 - 258 psl.
...together, they will be married. A similar mode of divination, by means of a peascod, is described by Gay. " As peascods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to see One that was closely fill'd with three-times three ; Which when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door tin:... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 psl.
...With my «harp heel I three time« mark tbe ground. And turn me thrice around, around, around.' 68 " will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He lov'd I fill'd with three time« three : Which, when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 psl.
...With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.' 68 " The river-hone, and scaly crocodile. At once came forth whatever fill'd with three times three : Which, when I cropp'd, I safely home convcy'd, And o'er the door the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 psl.
...together, they will be married. A similar mode of divination by means of a peascod, is described by Gray. "As peascods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to see One that was closely fiH'd with three-times three ; Which, when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the... | |
| 1852 - 874 psl.
...With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.' 68 " To slumber here, as fill'd with three times three: Which, when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the... | |
| John Gay - 1854 - 314 psl.
...glow. 6 With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 6 As peascods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to see One that was closely fill'd with three times three, Ver. 64.] - eyw ft £7rl Aetyidt, datyvav Aldo) ' %ug avra /la/ca (jiiya... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1867 - 532 psl.
...Halliwell, " were frequently accustomed hi their love-affairs to employ the divination of a peasood," &c. ; and something of the same kind appears to have been...for in his Fourth Pastoral I find Hobnelia says, "As peascoda once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to see One that was closely fill'd with three times three, Which... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1867 - 532 psl.
...accustomed in their love-affairs to employ the divination 314 PEAT PELICAN. of a peascod," &c. ; and something of the same kind appears to have been...for in his Fourth Pastoral I find Hobnelia says, "As pease,..!, once I pluok'd, I chanc'd to see One that was closely HUM with three times three, Which... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1868 - 542 psl.
...proverb in MS. Devon Gl. The divination by peascods alluded to by Mr. Davy is thus mentioned by Gay, As peascods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to see One that was closely fill'd with three times three ; Which, when I cropp'd, I safely home conycy'd, And o'er the door the... | |
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