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20 repeats the verses, before you begin, which you intend to try first, whether surname or Christian name; and take care to hold the bible steady, and when you arrive at the appointed letter, the book will turn round under your finger and that you will find to be the first letter of your intended’s name.

Solomon’s Songs, chap. VIII. ver. 6 and 7. “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave, the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it ; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly contemned.”

To know how soon a Person will be married.

Get a green pea cod, in which are exactly nine peas; hang it over the door, and then take notice of the first person who comes in, who is not of the family, and if it proves a bachelor, you will certainly be married within that year.

On any Friday throughout the year—Take rosemary flowers, bay leaves, thyme, and sweet marjoram, of each a handful, dry these, and make them into a fine powder; then take a teaspoonful of each sort, mix the powders together; then take twice the quantity of barley flower, and make the whole into a cake with the milk of a red cow. This cake is not