 I could not presently learn what the matter was ; at last a young man told me that they were looking for a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, and they should dream who would be their husbands. It was to be found that...  Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects - Page 131by John Aubrey - 1857 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
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...o'clock. I saw there about two or three-and-twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees, very busy, as if they had been weeding. I could...matter was; at last, a young man told me that they wenlooking for a coal under the root of a plaintain to put under their heads that night, and they should... | |
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...o'clock. I saw there about two or three and twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees very busy, as if they had been weeding. I could...plantain, to put under their head that night, and they * Memoir of Judge Jenkins, in Aubrey's MS. Lives of Eminent Men, in the Ashmolean Museum. (This memoir,... | |
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...o'clock. I saw there about two or three and twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees very busy, as if they had been weeding. I could...a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under then1 head that night, and they * Memoir of Judge Jenkins, in Aubrey's MS. Lives of Eminent Men, in... | |
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...man told me, that they were looking for a coal under the root of a plantain to put under their heads that night, and they should dream who would be their husbands. It was to be found that day and hour." 1774. • I well remember when in my eighth year, my father's playfellow,... | |
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...there about two or three and twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees, very busie, as if they had been weeding. I could not presently...coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, and they should dream who would be their husbands. It was to be found that day and... | |
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...very busie, as if they had been weeding. I could now presently learn what the matter was ; at least a young man told me that they were looking for a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, and they should dream •who would be their husbands : it was to be found that day,... | |
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...there about two or three and twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees very busie, as if they had been weeding. I could not presently...what the matter was ; at last a young man told me thatthey were looking for a coal under the root of a plantain to put under their heads that night,... | |
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...there about two or three and twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees very busie, as if they had been weeding. I could not presently...coal under the root of a plantain to put under their heads that night, and they should dream who would be their husbands. It was to be found that day and... | |
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