 The gold is swung, the silver is swung, and swung, too, is my love with the golden hair; 'to which the maiden replies, ' Who is it that swings me that I may gild him with my favour, that I may work him a fez all covered with pearls?  Folklore - Page 23edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | James Theodore Bent - 1885 - 554 pages
...by, and are called upon for a toll of one penny each, a song, and a swing. The words they generally use are as follows : — ' The gold is swung, the...penny, he is permitted to pass, and another comes on and does likewise. The houses opening on to this street were mere blackholes, where sat families... | |
 | 1888 - 898 pages
...upon for a toll of a copper apiece, a song, and a swing. They generally sing such words as these : " The gold is swung, the silver is swung, and swung,...is it that swings me, that I may gild him with my favor, that I may work for him a fez all covered with pearls?" Having paid his copper, the youth is... | |
 | 1888 - 938 pages
...upon for a toll of a copper apiece, a song, and a swing. They generally sing such words as these : " The gold is swung, the silver is swung, and swung, too, is my love with the golJcn hair." To which the maiden replies, " Who is it that swings me, that I may gild him with my... | |
 | Pausanias, Margaret de Gaudrion Merrifield Verrall - 1890 - 816 pages
...by, and are called upon for a toll of one penny each, a song, and a swing. The words they generally use are as follows : — ' The gold is swung, the...penny, he is permitted to pass, and another comes on and does likewise." Here all sense of the ceremony being a piaculum, if it ever was, is wholly lost.... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - 494 pages
...is swung, the silver is swung, and swung too is my love with the golden hair " ; to which the girl replies, " Who is it that swings me that I may gild...that I may work him a fez all covered with pearls ? " 6 In the Greek island of Karpathos the villagers assemble at a given place on each of the four... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - 498 pages
...the shape of a penny, a song, and a swing. The words which the youth sings are generally these : " The gold is swung, the silver is swung, and swung...too is my love with the golden hair " ; to which the girl replies, " Who is it that swings me that I may gild him with my favour, that I may work him a... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1903 - 848 pages
...— We may note as curious : — F 123. — A girl in a swing which is propelled by a Cupid. He. — The gold is swung, the silver is swung, and swung, too, is my love with the golden hair. She. — Who is it that swings me ? that I may gild him with my favour, that I may work him a fez all... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1912 - 332 pages
...the shape of a penny, a song, and a swing. The words which the youth sings are generally these : " The gold is swung, the silver is swung, and swung too is my love with the golden hair " ; to 1 Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes cence of the fact that, the bodies of of Central Australia, pp.... | |
 | John Freely - 2006 - 268 pages
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