Also
“Good morrow, Valentine!
God bless you ever!
If you’ll be true to me,
I’ll be the like to thee.
Old England for ever!”
Also
“Good morrow, Valentine,
First ’tis yours, then ’tis mine,
So please give me a Valentine.”
The Antiquary, 1873, vol. iii. p. 107; Brand, Pop. Antiq. 1849, vol. i. p. 60.
Yorkshire.
“On Valentine’s Day,” says Clarkson (Hist. of Richmond, 1821, p. 293), “the ceremony of drawing lots called Valentines is seldom omitted. The names of a select number of one sex with an equal number of the other are put into a vessel, and every one draws a name, which is called their Valentine; and which is looked upon as a good omen of their being afterwards united.”
March. 1.] ST. DAVID’S DAY.
March. 1.]