NOTES. 





Page 49, note m. 



" Happy omens rest 



On love so pledged, and hallowed by the Rite 

 Which God appointed and Christ's presence blest ! " — Bp. Mant. 



Page 49, note o. 



" Glide by the banks of virgins then, and passe 

 The showers of roses, lucky four-leav'd grasse : 

 The while the cloud of younglings sing. 

 And drown ye with a flowrie Spring." 



Herrick's Hesperides. 



" Now busie may dens strew sweet flowers." — England's Helicon. 



" Fine flowers and rosemary were strewed for them coming 

 home ; and so to the father's house, where there was a great 

 dinner prepared for his said three bride-daughters, with 

 their bridegrooms and company." — " A Wedding of three 

 Sisters together," Stone's Survey, {Strype's edition). 



" The strewing herbs and flowers at marriages is still kept 

 up in Kent and many other parts of England." — Brand's 

 Popular Antiquities. 



Page 50, note p. 



" Only kneel on, nor tuni away 

 From the pure shrine, where Christ to-day 

 Will store each flower, ye duteous lay. 

 For an eternal wreath." — Keble. 



Page 51, note r. 



"It was usual in the primitive Christian Church to place 

 crowns of flowers at the heads of deceased virgins : for this 



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