Make no delay, but come away
Unto this bed of mine.
And that night he may see her, as if she came in her shift and petticoat she will prove a civil woman—but if she comes with her shift only, she will prove a ranter, and so better lost than found."
"On Midsummer Eve three or four of you must dip your shifts in fair water, then turn them wrong side outwards, and hang them on chairs before the fire, and lay some salt on another chair, and speak not a word. In a short time the likeness of him you are to marry will come and turn your smocks, and drink to you; but if there be any of you will never marry, they will hear a bell, but not the rest."
"Another way quickly tried.
"Take hemp seed, and go into what place you will by yourself, carry the seed in your apron, and with your right hand throw it over your shoulder, saying,
Hemp seed I sow, hemp seed I sow,
And he that must be my true love,
Come after me and mow.
And at the ninth time expect to see the figure of him you are to wed, or else to hear a bell as before."