 | 1836 - 456 páginas
...from Moresin, that tends to show that in ancient times, at the festival of St. Valentine, men marie presents to the women, as the women did to the men...wear for you what you must pay, A pair of gloves next Easier day. fVnd new gloves are generally sent on Easter eve by the young man whom any fair damsel... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 308 páginas
...Devonshire, the young women thus address the first young man they happen to meet on St. Valentine's day — Good morrow, Valentine, I go to-day, To wear for you what you must pay, A pair of gloves next Easter-day. In Oxfordshire I have heard the following lines intended, I believe, for the same festival... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 páginas
...occasionally thus addresses the first young man she meets : — "Good morrow, Valentino, I go to day. To wear for you what you must pay, A pair of gloves, next Easter Day." 43- JNSL is thanked ; we regret that we have not room for the published song. 44. FW, Hncknall Torkard,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 páginas
...at other seasons. We trace this custom in Devonshire, where, on St. Valentine's Day, a young woman addresses the first young man she meets : — Good...for you what you must pay — A pair of gloves next Easter-day. " And new gloves," says Mrs. Bray, " are generally sent on Easter Eve by the young man... | |
 | Elias Tozer - 1873 - 104 páginas
...rustics sent new gloves to their sweethearts — by no means a bad custom. An old distich ran thus : — Good morrow, Valentine, I go to-day To wear for you what you must pay, A pair of gloves next Easter-day. The lasses used to get up on Easter morning to see the sunrise ; and of course the lads... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe - 1874 - 300 páginas
...county it is usual for a young woman thus to address the first man she meets on St. Valentine's Day — Good morrow, Valentine, I go to-day, To wear for you...must pay — A pair of gloves next Easter Day. And the person thus invited is expected to send the gloves on the day mentioned. In many of the villages,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1879 - 458 páginas
...says Mary, " is still told by mothers to their little boys to prevent their breaking the sabbath." I now come to the vestiges of our ancient customs;...Easter day." And new gloves are generally sent on Easter-eve by the young man whom any fair damsel may have selected to make her such a present, by thus... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 páginas
...In Devonshire they thus address the first young man they happen to meet on St. Valentine's day— " Good morrow, Valentine, I go to-day, To wear for you...what you must pay, A pair of gloves next Easter day." In Oxfordshire I have heard the following lines, intended, I believe, for the same festival— " The... | |
 | 1911 - 174 páginas
...damsel who was bold enough to address these lines to the first youth she met on St. Valentine's Day: Good morrow, Valentine, I go to-day, To wear for you...what you must pay, A pair of gloves next Easter Day. There is one custom, and it is as old as the hills, which, it appears, can always be indulged in without... | |
 | William Crossing - 1911 - 172 páginas
...damsel who was bold enough to address these lines to the first youth she met on St. Valentine's Day : Good morrow, Valentine, I go to-day, To wear for you...what you must pay, A pair of gloves next Easter Day. There is one custom, and it is as old as the hills, which, it appears, can always be indulged in without... | |
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Valentine, men made presents to the women, as the women did to the men at other seasons. We have a vestige of this custom not altogether extinct ; for on St. Valentine's day a young woman sometimes thus addresses the first young man she meets : — "... 
