Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various
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Sheffield. * * * * * _Folk Lore Rhymes._-- "Find odd-leafed ash, and even-leafed clover, And you'll see your true love before the day's over." If you wish to see your lover, throw salt on the fire every morning for nine days, and say-- "It is not salt I mean to burn, But my true lover's heart I mean to turn; Wishing him neither joy nor sleep, Till he come back to me and speak." "If you marry in Lent, You will live to repent." WEDSECNARF. * * * * * EMENDATION OF A PASSAGE IN THE "TEMPEST." Premising that I should approach the text of our great poet with an almost equal degree of awful reverence with that which characterises his two latest editors, I must confess that I should not have the same |
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