The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries, Volumes 11-13T. and A. Constable, 1897 - Scotland |
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Page 7 - Thou oon, and two, and three, eterne on-lyve, That regnest ay in three and two and oon, Uncircumscript, and al mayst circumscryve, Us from visible and invisible foon Defende ; and to thy mercy, everychoon, So make us, Jesus, for thy grace, digne, For love of mayde and moder thyn benigne ! Amen.
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Page 1 - ... in all my poor Historical investigations it has been, and always is, one of the most primary wants to procure a bodily likeness of the personage inquired after; a good Portrait if such exists; failing that, even an indifferent if sincere one. In short, any representation, made by a faithful human creature, of that Face and Figure, which he saw with his eyes, and which I can never see with mine, is now valuable to me, and much better than none at all.
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Page 92 - In Scotland, this used to be called St Martin of Bullion's Day, and the weather which prevailed upon it was supposed to have a prophetic character. It was a proverb, that if the deer rise dry and lie down dry on Bullion's Day, it was a sign there •would be a good gose-harvest — gose being a term for the latter end of summer ; hence gose-harvest •was an early harvest.
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