 | William Hone - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...of a new moon, maidens go into the fields, and, while they look at it, say, New moon, new moon, Т hail tbee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this...that I may see He who my true love is to be. They then return home, firmly believing that before morning their future husbands will appear to them in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 372 Seiten
...new moon, maidens go into the fields, and while they look at it, sayNew moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true lover is to be. They then return home, firmly believing that, before morning, their future husband... | |
 | Percy Society - 1847 - 358 Seiten
...Then wars shall trouble the realm full oft. New moon, new moon, I hail thee! By all the virtue in my body, Grant this night that I may see, He who my true love is to be.J A January haddock, A February bannock, And a March pint of ale.|| A January spring Is worth naething.... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 296 Seiten
...the array As he walks in every day. Or, sometimes, the following : New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true love is to be. Aubrey, in his Miscellanies, ed. 1696, p. 105, gives the following lines, used in Yorkshire for charming... | |
 | 1904 - 668 Seiten
...merely to look at the new moon and say : — New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue iu thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true love shall Ъе ! In the third line of the North Lincolnshire version furnished by JTF, would not " ray... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1869 - 420 Seiten
...moon, maidens go into the fields, and while they look at it, say: New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true lover is to be. But if my love be clad in blue, His love for me is very true.1 After all the knots... | |
 | George Bailey Loring - 1876 - 632 Seiten
...the moonlight evenings," said Dr. Parker, — " ' New moon, new moon, I hail thee By all the virtues in thy body. Grant this night that I may see He who my true-love is to be.' " " And I remember an old plan of discovering and catching a thief," said Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 Seiten
...women go into the fields, and while they look at it, say : — " New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true love is to be." They then return home, firmly believing that before morning their future husbands will appear to them in... | |
 | 1880 - 932 Seiten
...fields, and, whilst looking up at it, repeat the following rhyme : — New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true love is to be. 1 Popular Romances of West of England, p. 429, ' Folk-lore of Northern Counties, 1879, 114. After this,... | |
 | 1880 - 784 Seiten
...whilst looking up at it, repeat the following rhyme : — » New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! 15y all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true love is to be. 1 Popular Romances of West of England, p. 439, 1 FM-lori of Norllurn Counties, 1879, 114. After this,... | |
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New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that I may see He who my true love is to be. 
