 As when you join'd hands in holy quire. If to these conditions without all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive. And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known...  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 376by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Literature, Modern - 1807 - 556 pages
...fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A whole Gammon of Bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave; For this is our custom...Chartulary of the Priory, now in the British Museum, threR persons are recorded to have received the bacon previous -to the ^oppression 1 of/ of the religious... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 558 pages
...you will freely iwear, • \ ' ¡ '-' A whole Gammon of Bacon you shall receive, . .• And bear it hence with love and good leave { • •• For this is our custom at Dunmow well known« , : 1 Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own.* , .'.•• . • " In the Chartnlary of the... | |
 | Benjamin Crosby - 1815 - 576 pages
...our custom, at. Dunmow well knowp, Tim* the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own. Jnihe Chartnhry of the Priory, now in the British Museum, three persons...are recorded to have received the bacon, previous to ihe suppression of religious houses. Since that period uUo the bacon has been thrice delivered; in... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - England - 1815 - 564 pages
...fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear It hence with love and good leave, For this is our custom, at Duiiiiiow well known, Tho* the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own. In i lie CiiattuUry of the Priory,... | |
 | Thomas Green - Great Britain - 1818 - 654 pages
...fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Though the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own." Bearing in mind the particulars of this ancient... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Tho' the sport be our's, the bacon's your own. Then the man and his wife are taken on men's shoulders, and carried... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Tho' the sport be cur's, the bacon's your own. Then the man and his wife are taken on men's shoulders, and carried... | |
 | Law - 1825 - 312 pages
...own accord you will freely sweare, 30 LAW AND A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive And bear it hence with love and good leave : For this is our custom at Duumow well knowne^ Though the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your .v Chester, — City and County.... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave : For this is our custom...known, Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own. INDEX. ANECDOTES OF FIDELITY. African Slaves 44 Alexander and Hephestion .. 143 Ambrose, old 40 Audley... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1827 - 730 pages
...feare, Of your own accord you will freely sweare, A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave, For this is our custom at Dunmow well knowne, Though the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own." There was also a similar custom in the... | |
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