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24 Which continue the whole 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.

Three, four, or more of you must make a cake of flour and salt, (no matter of what flour) and some of each of your own water; make your cake broad, and each of you set the two first letters of your name with a pin, but leave such a distance that it may be cut; then set it before the fire, but speak not one word. Turn it each of you once; and the person to be your husband, will cut out your name; then the next unto the last. If there be any who hear a bell, I wish I had them for my bedfellow, to prevent their leading in hell.

The first change of the New Moon on the New Year, the first time you see it, hold your hands across, saying this three times,

New Moon, New Moon, I pray thee; Tell me this night who my true love will be.

Then go to bed without speaking a word, and you will certainly dream of the person you shall marry

Young men and maids may take some rosemary flowers, bay leaves, a little thyme, sweet marjoram and southernwood; make these into powder, and with barley flour make a cake, but do not bake it. Lay this under your head any Friday night, and if you dream of music, you will wed those you desire in a short time; if of the sea or ships, you will travel first; if of a church, you must be contented to die single.