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in love; if of a church, she will die single. If anything be written, or there be the least spot on the paper, it will not do.
Any unmarried woman fasting on midsummer eve, and at midnight laying a clean cloth, with bread, cheese, and ale, and sitting down as if going to eat, the street door being left open, the person whom she is afterwards to marry will come into the room, and drink to her by bowing; and after filling the glass, will leave it on the table, make another bow aud retire.
To know what fortune your future Husband shall have.—Take a walnut, a hazel-nut, and a nutmeg, grate them together, and mix them with butter and sugar, and make them into small pills, of which exactly nine must be taken on going to bed, and according to your dreams so will be the state of the person you will marry. If a gentleman, of riches; if a clergyman, of white linen; if a lawyer, of darkness; if a tradesman, of odd noises and tumults; if a soldier or sailor, of thunder and lightning; if a servant, of rain.
To see a future Spouse in a Dream, by charming the Moon.—At the first appearance of the new moon, immediately after new-year's day, go out in the evening, and standing over the spars of a gate or stile, and looking on the moon, repeat the following lines:—
All hail to thee, Moon, all hail to thee!
I pr'thee, good Moon, reveal to me
This night who my husband shall be.
