 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1847 - 518 pages
...they call moulding of cockle-bread, viz. they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they...wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dowgh, &e." See further particulars in Thorns' Anee, and Trad, p. 95. I question whether the term cockclbread... | |
 | George Soane - 1847 - 370 pages
...they call moulding of cockle-bread ; viz. they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they...can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were needing of dough, and say these words, viz. _. , My dame is sick and gone to bed, And I'll go mould... | |
 | Brand - 1849 - 544 pages
...they call moulding of cockle-bread, viz. they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dough, and say these words: " My dame is sick, and gone to bed, And I'll go mould my cockle-bread !... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1850 - 526 pages
...they call moulding of cockle-bread, viz. they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they...wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dowgh, &c." See further particulars in Thorns' Anee, and Trad, p. 95. I question whether the term cockelbread... | |
 | Robert Greene, George Peele - 1861 - 656 pages
...they call moulding of Cockle-bread, viz. they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they...did imagine nothing to have been in this but meer wantonnesee of youth. But I find in Burchardus, in his ' Methodus Confitendi ', printed at Colon, 1549,... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce, George Peele - 1861 - 650 pages
...table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they con, aud then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading...dowgh, and say these words, viz. My dame is sick and gönne to bed, And He go mould my Cockle-bread. I did Imagine nothing to have been in this but meer... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 720 pages
...moulding of cockle bread, viz. they get upon a table board, and then gather up their knees and their coats with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dough, and say these words," &c., &c. (Thotns's Anecdotes and Traditions, p. 94, 1839, 4to ; see the... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 716 pages
...moulding of cockle bread, viz. they get upon a table board, and then gather up their knees and their coats with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dough, and say these words," &c., &c. (Thoma's Anecdotes and Traditions, p. 94, 1839, 4to ; see the... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 718 pages
...moulding of cockle bread, viz. they get upon a table board, and then gather up their knees and their coats with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneadr ing of dough, and say these words," &c., &c. (Thoms's Anecdotes and Traditions, p. 94, 1839,... | |
 | Robert Greene, George Peele - 1874 - 640 pages
...they call moulding of Cockle-bread, viz. they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knots and their coates with their hands as high as they can, and thcu they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dowgh, and say these words, viz. My dame is... | |
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COCKLE BREAD Young wenches [Aubrey loquitur] have a wanton sport which they call moulding of Cockle-bread, viz., they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to... 
