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Olden Holiday Customs.
If another extract may be pardoned , will take from the " Monthly Magazine" for 1827 , a legend principally accounting for the observance of this clay : — " From Britain ' s realm in olden time By the strong power of truth sublime , The Pagan rites were banished
; And spite of Greek and Roman lore Each god and goddess , famed of yore , From grove and altar vanished . Ancl they ( as sure became them best ) To Austin and Paulinius' hest , Obediently submitted ; And left the land without delay
, Save Cupid , who still held a sway , Too strong to passively obey , Or be by saints outwitted . " The saints , finding he cannot be removed from British shores , imprison him in a convent , where he appears a most unsaintly inmate in the eyes of the votaries . This obstacle he , however ,
overcomes : " For , by his brightest dart , the elf Affirm'd , he had turn'd saint himself , To make their scruples lighter ; So gravely hid his dimpled smiles , His wreathed locks and playful wiles , Beneath a bishop ' s mitre . The Christians reared the boy a shrine
, And youths invoked Saint Valentine , To bless then- annual passion ; And maidens still his name revere , And smiling hail his day each year , A day to village lovers dear ,
Though saints are out of fashion . " Leaving St . Valentine to listen to his invokers , we pass on to Care or Carling Sunday , the second before Easter , and known by that name in the north of England . It is usual to fry grey peas in butter , which are eaten with pepper and salt in their hard state . The writer lately saw enormous dishes of this
unenticing commodity consumed in Northumberland . It is generall y given away by publicans to their customers , who believe that if they do not partake of it , nothing will go weU with them during the year . This is , no doubt , a venerable custom . In an old Roman calendar- , it is observed that on this day " a dole is made of soft beans . " At funeralstooreliious use was made
, , g of beans . Pliny says that Pythagoras interdicted the eating of pulse , because " beans contained the souls of the dead . " _ Maturel y , also called Shere , Thursday is still dedicated to the distribution of royal alms to the poor . It is the last Thursday before Easter , and supposed to derive its name either from v 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Olden Holiday Customs.
If another extract may be pardoned , will take from the " Monthly Magazine" for 1827 , a legend principally accounting for the observance of this clay : — " From Britain ' s realm in olden time By the strong power of truth sublime , The Pagan rites were banished
; And spite of Greek and Roman lore Each god and goddess , famed of yore , From grove and altar vanished . Ancl they ( as sure became them best ) To Austin and Paulinius' hest , Obediently submitted ; And left the land without delay
, Save Cupid , who still held a sway , Too strong to passively obey , Or be by saints outwitted . " The saints , finding he cannot be removed from British shores , imprison him in a convent , where he appears a most unsaintly inmate in the eyes of the votaries . This obstacle he , however ,
overcomes : " For , by his brightest dart , the elf Affirm'd , he had turn'd saint himself , To make their scruples lighter ; So gravely hid his dimpled smiles , His wreathed locks and playful wiles , Beneath a bishop ' s mitre . The Christians reared the boy a shrine
, And youths invoked Saint Valentine , To bless then- annual passion ; And maidens still his name revere , And smiling hail his day each year , A day to village lovers dear ,
Though saints are out of fashion . " Leaving St . Valentine to listen to his invokers , we pass on to Care or Carling Sunday , the second before Easter , and known by that name in the north of England . It is usual to fry grey peas in butter , which are eaten with pepper and salt in their hard state . The writer lately saw enormous dishes of this
unenticing commodity consumed in Northumberland . It is generall y given away by publicans to their customers , who believe that if they do not partake of it , nothing will go weU with them during the year . This is , no doubt , a venerable custom . In an old Roman calendar- , it is observed that on this day " a dole is made of soft beans . " At funeralstooreliious use was made
, , g of beans . Pliny says that Pythagoras interdicted the eating of pulse , because " beans contained the souls of the dead . " _ Maturel y , also called Shere , Thursday is still dedicated to the distribution of royal alms to the poor . It is the last Thursday before Easter , and supposed to derive its name either from v 2