 | John Brand, Henry Bourne - Christian antiquities - 1777 - 466 pages
...after the Knot is cut, M then they cry with a loud Voice three Times " I have her" ' Others anfwer, as many Times " What have you?"— A Mare, ' a Mare, a Mare: " Whofe isjbe?" thrice alfo. JB (naming ' the Owner three Times) Whither tuill you Jend her? To Jo.... | |
 | John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...with a loud Voice three Times, " / have her." Others answer, as many Times, " What have you, f" — A Mare, a Mare, a Mare : " Whose is she?" thrice also. JB (naming the Owner three Times) Whither mill you send her ? To Jo. a Nicks, (naming some Neighbour, who has not all his Corn reaped) then they... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...then they cry with a loud Voice three Times, " / have her." Others answer, as many Times, " What Itare you ?" — A Mare, a Mare, a Mare: " Whose is she?" thrice also. JB (naming the Owner three Times) IPIiitlier u-ill you tend her ? To Jo. a Nicks, (naming same Neighbour, who has not all his Corn reaped)... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...acclamations and good cheer. Blount adds, respecting this custom, that " after the knot is cut, then they cry with a loud voice three times, ' I have her.'...Nicks,' (naming some neighbour who has not all his corn reaped ;) then they all shout three times, and so the ceremony ends with good cheer. In Yorkshire,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...acclamations and good cheer. Blount adds, respecting this custom, that " after the knot is cut, then they cry with a loud voice three times, ' I have her.'...Nicks,' (naming some neighbour who has not all his corn reaped ;) then they all shout three times, and so the ceremony ends with good cheer. In Yorkshire,... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...acclamations and good cheer. Blount adds, respecting this custom, that " after the knot is cut, then they cry with a loud voice three times, ' I have her.'...Nicks,' (naming some neighbour who has not all his com reaped ;) then they all shout three times, and so the ceremony ends with good cheer. In Yorkshire,... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...who tells us further, that " After the Knot is cut, then they cry with a lond voice three times, ' 1 have her!' Others answer, as many times, ' What have you?' — ' A Mare ! a Mare ! a Mare !'— i Whose is she V thrice also. — JB (naming the owner three times). — ' Whither will you send... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...custom with rustic pomp." 1 See Blount; who tells us further, that " After the knot is cut, then they cry with a loud voice, three times, ' I have her !'...mare ! a mare ! a mare!'—' Whose is she ?' thrice also.—JB (naming the owner three times.)—'Whither will you send her ?'—' To J. a Nicks' (naming... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1854 - 560 pages
...custom with rustic pomp." 1 See Blount ; who tells us further, that " After the knot is cut, then they cry with a loud voice, three times, ' I have her !'...thrice also. — JB (naming the owner three times.) — ' AVhither will you send her ?' — ' To J. a Nicks' (naming some neighbour who has not all his... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1868 - 542 pages
...with a loud voice, I have her, I have her, I have her. Others answer, What have yon, what have you, what have you ? A mare, a mare, a mare. Whose is she, whose is she, whose is »he ? JB (naming the owner three times). Whither will you send her? To John-aNokes,... | |
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Nicks,' (naming some neighbour who has not all his corn reaped;) then they all shout three times, and so the ceremony ends with good cheer. In Yorkshire, upon the like occasion, they have a harvest dame; in Bedfordshire, a Jack and a Gill. 
