The Knot Tied: Marriage Ceremonies of All Nations

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W. Tegg & Company, 1877 - 410 sidor

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Sida 7 - Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous Lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range ; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Sida 20 - At which day of Marriage, if any man do allege and declare any impediment, why they may not be coupled together in Matrimony, by God's Law, or the Laws of this Realm; and will be bound, and sufficient sureties with him, to the parties; or else put in a Caution (to the full value of such charges as the persons to be married do thereby sustain ) to prove his allegation: then the solemnization must be deferred, until such time as the truth be tried.
Sida 233 - You shall swear by Custom of Confession, That you ne'er made nuptial transgression ; Nor since you were married man and wife By household brawls or contentious strife, Or otherwise at bed or at board Offended each other in deed or word : Or since the parish clerk said Amen...
Sida 288 - Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the nut, so may thy passion grow ; For 'twas thy nut that did so brightly glow.
Sida 222 - With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
Sida 18 - At the day and time appointed for Solemnization of Matrimony, the Persons to be married shall come into the body of the Church...
Sida 280 - You must lie in another county, and knit the left garter about the right-legged stocking, let the other garter and stocking alone, and as you rehearse these following verses, at every comma knit a knot : — This knot I knit, To know the thing I know not yet, That I may see The man that shall my husband be : How he goes, and what he wears, And what he does all days and years.
Sida 232 - Third, by the grace of God of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland king, defender of the faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five.
Sida 198 - No. 7 (1347) notices the performance of clandestine marriages, and that " some contriving unlawful " marriages, and affecting the dark, lest their deeds should " be reproved, procure every day, in a damnable manner, " marriages to be celebrated without publication of banns " duly and lawfully made, by means of chaplains that have no " regard to the fear of God and the prohibition of the laws.
Sida 227 - That he which repents him not of his marriage, either sleeping or waking, in a year and a day, may lawfully go to Dunmow and fetch a gammon of bacon.

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