 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...  Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects - Page 126by John Aubrey - 1857 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 862 pages
...taking her right-leg stocking, she might knit the left garter round it, repeating : — ' I knit this knot, this knot I knit, To know the thing I know not yet, That I may see The man that shall my husband be, Not in his best or worst array, But what he weareth every day ; That I to-morrow... | |
 | William Henderson - Folklore - 1879 - 424 pages
...left garter about the right stocking, rehearsing the following verses, and at every comma knitting a knot: This knot I knit, To know the thing I know not yet, That I may see, Accordingly, in a dream, he will appear with the insignia of his trade or profession. Another mode... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - Folklore - 1880 - 312 pages
...stocking, letting the other garter and stocking alone ; and, as they rehearse the following verses, at every comma knit a knot : — • This knot I knit,...To know the thing I know not yet ; That I may see Accordingly, in a dream, the desired one will appear, with the insignia of his trade or profession."... | |
 | William Andrews - Derbyshire (England) - 1880 - 342 pages
...taking her right leg stocking, she might knit the left garter round it, repeating — I knit this, this knot I knit, To know the thing I know not yet, That I may see The man who shall my husband be. Not in his best, nor worst array, But what he weareth every day ; That I to-morrow... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1883 - 360 pages
...leg stocking, she might knit the left garter round it — repeating the lines : — " ' I knit this knot — this knot I knit To know the thing I know not yet. That I may see The man who shall my husband be ; Not in his best or worst array, But what he weareth every day ; That I to-morrow... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - England - 1884 - 306 pages
...stocking, letting the other garter and stocking alone ; and, as they rehearse the following verses, at every comma knit a knot : — • This knot I knit, To know the tiling I know not yet ; That I may see Accordingly, in a dream, the desired one will appear, with the... | |
 | 1885 - 724 pages
...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...the thing, I know not yet, That I may see, The man that shall my hushand be, How he goes, and what he wears, And what he does, all days and years. Accordingly... | |
 | Dream interpretation - 1890 - 84 pages
...rightlegged stocking, letting tbu other guricr and stocking alone; and as you rehearse the following verses, at every comma knit a knot: This knot I knit, To know a thing I know not yet, That I may see The man that shall my husband be, Dow he goes and what he wears,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1891 - 900 pages
...(let the other garter and stocking alone), and rehearse the following verses, at every comma knitting 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, What he does, all days and years ; accordingly... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 584 pages
...legged stocking (let the other garter and stocking alone), and as you rehearse the following verses, at every comma, knit a knot — 'This knot I knit, To know the thing, I know not yet, That I may see How s ^ e goes, and what f wears, And what he' does, all days, and years.' In Norfolk they add— "... | |
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