[104] In Devonshire farmhouses, it is a very customary practice, on Christmas Eve, to put a number of wooden binders around an ashen or oaken faggot, and according to the quantity of them (the binders), so is the quantity of cider regulated for the evening’s entertainment.
[105] The dance.
THE
DEATH, BURIAL, AND DESTRUCTION
OF
BACCHUS;
OR,
THE FRUITS OF LASCIVIOUSNESS.
AN ALLEGORICAL POEM.
IN
TWO CANTOS.
By
E. E. FOOT.