Transcriber’s Notes Transcription used: text between ~tildes~, _underscores_, and =equal signs= represents text printed in blackletter, italics and bold face in the original work, respectively. Small capitals have been transcribed as ALL CAPITALS. [X] represents a rotated X. More transcriber’s notes (including a list of corrections) may be found at the end of this text. [Illustration: ~The Clog--a Perpetual Almanack.~ ~Explained in the Preface.~] THE EVERY-DAY BOOK AND TABLE BOOK; OR, EVERLASTING CALENDAR OF POPULAR AMUSEMENTS, SPORTS, PASTIMES, CEREMONIES, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND EVENTS, INCIDENT TO ~Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days,~ IN PAST AND PRESENT TIMES; FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE YEAR, MONTHS, AND SEASONS, AND A PERPETUAL KEY TO THE ALMANAC; INCLUDING ACCOUNTS OF THE WEATHER, RULES FOR HEALTH AND CONDUCT, REMARKABLE AND IMPORTANT ANECDOTES, FACTS, AND NOTICES, IN CHRONOLOGY, ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, NATURAL HISTORY, ART, SCIENCE, AND GENERAL LITERATURE; DERIVED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, AND VALUABLE ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, WITH POETICAL ELUCIDATIONS, FOR DAILY USE AND DIVERSION. BY WILLIAM HONE. I tell of festivals, and fairs, and plays, Of merriment, and mirth, and bonfire blaze; I tell of Christmas-mummings, new year’s day, Of twelfth-night king and queen, and children’s play; I tell of valentines, and true-love’s-knots, Of omens, cunning men, and drawing lots: I tell of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers, Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers; I tell of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes; I tell of groves, of twilights, and I sing The court of Mab, and of the fairy king. HERRICK. WITH FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX ENGRAVINGS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE. LONDON: J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DARLINGTON, LORD LIEUTENANT AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, TO YOUR LORDSHIP--as an encourager of the old country sports and usages chiefly treated of in my book, and as a maintainer of the ancient hospitality so closely connected with them, which associated the Peasantry of this land with its Nobles, in bonds which degraded neither-- I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THIS VOLUME; not unmindful of your Lordship’s peculiar kindness to me under difficulties, and not unmoved by the pride which I shall have in subscribing myself, MY LORD, YOUR LORDSHIP’S HIGHLY HONOURED, MOST OBEDIENT, AND VERY HUMBLE SERVANT, WILLIAM HONE. _February 27, 1827._ PREFACE. Before remarking on the work terminating with this volume, some notice should be taken of its Frontispiece.