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“I have often-times assayed, that if a man keep them with a little of the rock and wet them with May-dew oft-sithes, they shall grow every year, and the small will wax great.”
“The arrival of a large dish of good cow-heel and bacon something soothed the asperity of the artist, which wholly vanished before a choice capon, so delicately roasted that the lard frothed on it, said Wayland, like May-dew on a lily; and both Gaffer Crane and his good dame became, in his eyes, very painstaking, accommodating, obliging persons.”
“May-dew has not lost its virtue; the carrying of fire round houses, fields, and boats are still supposed to drive away witches and evil spirits; and diseases are supposed to be capable of cure by means of charms.”
“Dousterswivel: "Pray, Mr. Dousterswivel, shall we dig from east to west, or from west to east? or will you assist us with your triangular vial of May-dew, or with your divining-rod of witch-hazel?”
“I find no allusion to these specific applications of "May-dew" in Ellis's _Brand_.”
“_ -- Every one has heard of the virtues of "May-dew," but perhaps the complex superstition following may be less generally known.”
“Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled:”
“She is said to have further whetted her appetite for horrors by wading, at Fahrwangen, in the blood of sixty-three innocent knights, exclaiming the while, "This day we bathe in May-dew.”
“Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled:”
“Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled.”
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