Which is this: you are only to take a little hemp-seed and go into what place you please by yourself, and carry the seed in your apron, and with your right hand throw it over your left shoulder, saying thus:
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 hear a bell, as before.
Yet though you hear the sad and dismal bell,
’Tis your fault if you lead apes in hell.
Another way.
Which is this: you that dare venture yourselves into a church-yard just as it strikes twelve, take there a naked sword in your hand, and go nine times about the church, saying only thus, Here’s the sword, but where’s the scabbard? Which continue all the time you go round; and the ninth time the person you are to marry will meet you with a scabbard, and so kiss you; if not, a bell as before.
Another, which is called the Dutch Cake.