 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...be fulfilled, the birds are likely to spoil your clothes. This is alluded to in Poor Robin : — " At Easter let your clothes be new Or else be sure you will it rue." So says Mr. Barnes, the Dorsetshire poet, — " Laste Easter I put on my blue Frock cuoat, the vust... | |
 | William Henderson - England - 1866 - 422 pages
...something new on Easter Sunday, else the birds will spoil one's clothes, or, as it stands in verse — At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else, be sure, you will it rue. The belief that the sun dances at its rising on Easter morning peeps out in many parts of Yorkshire,... | |
 | 1876 - 898 pages
...fear of ill-fortune befalling thorn if they should fail to observe this practice. Thus, Poor Eobin says : — " At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you will it rue." It was once almost a universal custom among Christians to give to one another, at this season, pasch,... | |
 | Theology - 1874 - 666 pages
...practice by special decrees. The following lines also, would seem to have a superstitious origin : " At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you will it rue." Such too was the custom once practiced of dividing two great cakes in the church on Easter Day among... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 pages
...— notably rooks or " crakes "—will spoil their clothes.1 In " Poor Robin's Almanac" we are told : "At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you will it rue.'7 Some think that the custom of" clacking " at Easter — which is not quite obsolete in some... | |
 | Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 588 pages
...said generally — Yellow, yellow, turned up with green, Passing from colours, it is said of dress — At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you will it rue. — AS. 83. Doubtless, to be in harmony with the recreation of Spring, and the Resurrection. There... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 584 pages
...said generally— Yellow, yellow, turned up with green, Passing from colours, it is said of dress— At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you will it rue.—AS. 83. Doubtless, to be in harmony with the recreation of Spring, and the Resurrection. There... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1900 - 376 pages
...Gaelic Society of Inverness. new clothes for the first time on Easter Day, and they have a rhyme which says— " At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you it will rue." When one went out of doors on New- Year's morning, he took particular notice as to whether... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1900 - 380 pages
...deem it best to wear their new clothes for the first time on Easter Day, and they have a rhyme which says — " At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you it will rue." When one went out of doors on New- Year's morning, ha took particular notice as to whether... | |
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At Easter let your clothes be new, Or else be sure you will it rue. 
