When I was a boy a charme was used for (I think) keeping
away evill spirits ; w^ was to say thrice in a breath,
Three blew Beanes in a blew bladder,
Battle, bladder, rattle.
Qnodq' pice adstrinxit, quod acn traiecit aena,
Obsatnm mjensB torret in igne caput:
Vina qnoqne instillat: yini qnodcnmq' relictnm est,
Ant ipsa, ant comites, pins tamen ipsa, bibit.
Hostiles lingnas inimicaq' yinximns [ora]
Dicit discedens, ebriaq' exit anus. — [F. ii. 577-6S2.]
There is, in some comers of this Nation some trick or charme against an ill tongae, or (as they terme it) labouring under an ill tongue, w<* quaere. Mdm. in Mr. Lillies Astrologies there is a Beceipt for it, Take Populeam, &c [See Miscellanies, p. 139.]
[Day-fatality.[1]]
Some peculiar dales fatal to particular persons, as Matthew Paris observes of Thomas Becket, Abp. of Canterbury:—
Nescitnr qnomodo remm prsBsagio yel eventn contigerit, qnod mnlta beato Thomae die Martis mirabilia contigemnt. Die enim Martis scilicet die Thomae Apostoli natns extitit [Bend in mnndnm intravit die Martis contra Dia- bolnm prsliatnms: Mars enim secnndnm Foetas, Dens belli nnncnpatnr] .... Die Martis sederunt Frincipes apnd Nortbamptonam et adversns cnm loqna- bantnr. Actns est die Martis in exilmn. Die Martis appamit ei Dominns apnd Fontiniacnm dicens: Thoma, Thoma, Ecclesia mea glorificabitnr in sangnine tno. Die insnper Martis reversns est ab exilio. Martyrii qnoq' palmam die Martis est adeptns .... Venerabile corpns ejns die Martis gloriam translationis sns- cepit.— Snb An. 1169, p. 116.
Oliver Cromwell obtained his two greatest victories at Dunbar and Worcester on Septemb. 3, and died on that day An. 1658.—[W. K.]
Et vigilant nostra semper in »de Lares.— [F. ii. 616.]
Quare if in Ireland or Scotland there is any resemblance of the Lares, or of any worship to 'em.
- ↑ [This is treated of at length in Miscellanies, pp. 1-24: see also p. 68. — ^Ed.]
