Church Folklore: A Record of Some Post-Reformation Usages in the English Church, Now Mostly Obsolete |
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Page 145 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 173 - Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord; and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend.
Page 148 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we...
Page 114 - By Authority. — Marriages performed with the utmost privacy, decency, and regularity at the Ancient Royal Chapel of St John the Baptist, in the Savoy, where regular and authentic registers have been kept from the time of the Reformation (being two hundred years and upwards) to this day. The expense not more than one guinea, the five-shilling stamp included. There are five private ways by land to this chapel, and two by water.
Page 273 - You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes?" He to the Cornishman said: But the Cornishman smiled as the stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church.
Page 43 - And all Priests and Deacons are to say daily the Morning and Evening Prayer, either privately or openly, not being let by sickness or some other urgent cause.
Page 248 - But yet for the retaining of the perambulation of the circuits of parishes, the people shall once in the year, at the time accustomed, with the curate and the substantial men of the parish, walk about the parishes as they were accustomed, and at their return to the church make their common prayers...
Page 245 - Fourthly, mercy in relieving the poor by a liberal distribution and largess, which at that time is or ought to be used. Wherefore he exacts of all to be present at the perambulation ; and those that withdraw, and sever themselves from it, he mislikes and reproves as uncharitable and unneighbourly...
Page 235 - Ye call Me Master, and Lord ; and ye say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye ought also to wash one another's feet ; for I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 220 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring.