...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes,* nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the...

...the season of Christmas, which are thus commemorated by the first, perhaps, of uninspired writers. " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power...

...occasion to observe that the same idea is expressed by our old standard poets. Thus Shakspeare : — " Some say that ever, 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, * « * * ' The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to...

...the olden time) the very season is considered sacredly wholesome against all unnatural harms : — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes. Wherein...singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath...

...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious is the...

...population. Perhaps the finest of them is that alluded to by Shakespeare in the following lines: " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dare» stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, Ко fairy- takes, nor witch...

...cattle to kneel in their stalls, their heads bowed to the eut, as if in dévotion.t Shakspere writes, " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long ; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath...

...population. Perhaps the finest of them is that alluded to by Shakespeare in the following lines: " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath...

...cock-crowing is likewise at a certain season rendered still more important — " Some say that ever against that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is...singeth all night long! And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad. The nights are wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch has power...

...ever after during the holy season the cock was supposed to exert his power throughout the night. " Some say, that ever, 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...singeth all night long ; And then they say no spirit walks abroad." Traces of these religious breakfasts are said to have been still met with in several...