Yorkshire Minstrels, e. g. Rayer, Founder of St. Bartholomews Hospital.
Dulcis erat mercede labor ——
Irish howlings at Funeralls, also in Yorkshire within these 70 yeares (1688).
Praeficae mulieres ad lamentandum conductæ v ...... Plauti, et notas Jan. Douzae.[1]
Dacit supremos Naenia nulla toros.—[F. vi. 668.]
(sc. after their banishment.)
'Tis a great pity that Ovid had not lived, to have finished the other six moneths; wherby a great deale of curious Antiquity is losst.
Of Whistling.
Mdm. The seamen will not endure to have one whistle on shipboard: believing that it rayses winds. On Malvern-hills, in Worcestershire, &c., thereabout when they fanne their Corne, and want wind, they cry Youle! Youle! Youle! to invoke it, wch word (no doubt) is a corruption of Æolus (ye God of ye Winds).
This ye above sd Cramer affirmes to be don likewise in Germany. He being once upon the River Elbe, begun accidentally to whistle, which the Watermen presently disliked, and would have him rather to forbeare.
Altars.
Hosea, ch. iv. v. 13. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountaines, and burn incense upon the hills under oakes, and poplars, and elms, because the shadow thereof is good.
Psalm 78, v. 59. For they grieved him with their Hill-altars, and provoked him to displeasure with their Images. The Altars many times, in processe of time, became Temples; for, unles it had been at first on such an account, one would wonder to see
- ↑ [The reference is to Truculenti, Act ii. sc. 6, l. 14. See note in ed. Delph.]
