[593] Gomme, Sir L., London, p. 74.
[594] De bello Gallico, v., 21.
[595] Blackie, C., Dictionary of Place-names, p. 21.
[596] Garnier, Col., The Worship of the Dead, p. 240.
[597] Thomas, J., Brit. Antiquissima, p. 108.
[598] The choral music of the Teutons did not create a favourable impression on the mind of Tacitus, vide his account of a primitive Hymn of Hate: “The Germans abound with rude strains of verse, the reciters of which, in the language of the country, are called Bards. With this barbarous poetry they inflame their minds with ardour in the day of action, and prognosticate the event from the impression which it happens to make on the minds of the soldiers, who grow terrible to the enemy, or despair of success, as the war-song produces an animated or a feeble sound. Nor can their manner of chanting this savage prelude be called the tone of human organs: it is rather a furious uproar; a wild chorus of military virtue. The vociferation used upon these occasions is uncouth and harsh, at intervals interrupted by the application of their bucklers to their mouths, and by the repercussion bursting out with redoubled force.”—Germania, I., iii., p. 313.
[599] Blackman, Winifred S., The Rosary in Magic and Religion, Folklore, xxiv., 4.
[600] Wright, E. M., Rustic Speech and Folklore, p. 303.
[601] Cf. Hazlitt, W. Carew, Faiths and Folklore, i., p. 314.
[602] Cockney dialect is closely akin to Kentish, and abounds in venerable verbal relics: “The stranger enters, but he nonetheless pays his toll; he does not leave any mark on London, but London leaves an indelible stamp upon him. The children of the foreigner, the children of the Yorkshireman or Lancastrian, belong in speech neither to Yorkshire nor Lancashire, they become more Cockney than the Cockneys; and even the alien voices of the east end, notably less musical than those of our own people, take on the tones of London’s ancient speech.”—MacBride, Mackenzie, London’s Dialect, An Ancient form of English Speech, with a Note on the Dialects of the North of England, and the Midlands and Scotland, p. 8.