Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850

OUR PROGRESS

NOTES

CAPTIVITY OF THE QUEEN OF BRUCE IN ENGLAND

A NOTE ON ROBERT HERICK, AUTHOR OF "HESPERIDES."

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "LÆRIG?"

FOLK LORE

ST. VALENTINE IN NORWICH—COOK-EELS, &c. &c

FOLK LORE OF WALES

WILLIAM BASSE AND HIS POEMS

JOHN STOWE

TRANSPOSITION OF LETTERS

PARALLEL PASSAGES OR PLAGIARISMS IN CHILDE HAROLD

INEDITED LINES BY ROBERT BURNS

LACEDÆMONIAN BLACK BROTH

QUERIES

TEN QUERIES CONCERNING POETS AND POETRY

BISHOP COSIN'S FORM OF CONSECRATION OF CHURCHES

PORTRAITS OF LUTHER, ERASMUS, AND ULRIC VON HUTTEN

QUESTIONS CONCERNING CHAUCER

LETTER ATTRIBUTED TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE

BISHOPS OF OSSORY

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

COLLEGE SALTING

QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 5

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANIES

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Mickleham, Nov. 23. 1849.

The day appropriated to St. Valentine is kept with some peculiarity in the city of Norwich. Although "Valentines," as generally understood, that is to say billets sent by means of the post, are as numerously employed here as in other places, yet the custom consists not in the transmission of a missive overflowing with hearts and darts, or poetical posies, but in something far more substantial, elegant and costly—to wit, a goodly present of value unrestricted in use or expense. Though this custom is openly adopted among relatives and others whose friendship is reciprocated, yet the secret mode of placing a friend in possession of an offering is followed largely,—and this it is curious to remark, not on the day of the saint, when it might be supposed that the appropriateness of the gift would be duly ratified, the virtue of the season being in full vigour, but on the eve of St. Valentine, when it is fair to presume his charms are not properly matured. The mode adopted among all classes is that of placing the presents on the door-sill of the house of the favoured person, and intimating what is done by a run-a-way knock or ring as the giver pleases.

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