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There was a legend, that, when the Danish pirates made descents upon the English coast, they caught a few Tartars occasionally, in the shape of Saxons, who would not let them go, on the contrary, insisted on their staying, and, to make sure of it, treated them as Apollo treated Marsyas, or an Bartholinus has treated a fellow-creature in his title-page, and, having divested them of the one essential and perfectly fitting garment, indispensable in the mildest climates, nailed the same on the church-door as we do the banns of marriage, in terrorem.
Retired from the public road he may see poor Maria sitting under a palm-tree, with her elbow in her lap and her head leaning on one side within her hand, weeping over her forbidden banns. And as he moves on, “with wandering step and slow,” he may hear a broken-hearted nymph ask her faithless swain,
His eye ran rapidly over a few preliminary lines till it rested on what follows: "Marriage. The year 18 "No. 83, page 21. "Philip Beaufort, of this parish of A , and Catherine Morton, of the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, London, were married in this church by banns, this 12th day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and by me, "CALEB PRICE, Vicar.
The marriage was nearly all that a marriage should be when a Lady Anna is led to the hymeneal altar. As the ceremony was transferred from Bloomsbury, London, to Yoxham, in Yorkshire, a licence had been procured, and the banns of which Daniel Thwaite thought so much, had been called in vain. Of course there are differences in aristocratic marriages. All earls' daughters are not married at St.
No need to get the 'consent of the parents, or make a 'settlement, or give out the banns, or buy a government license as though a wife were contraband goods, or hire a string of four-wheelers, or tip the pew-opener. What has love to do with pew-openers? Why should the finest thing in life become the prey of such vulgar parasites?
"'Sixteen thousand pounds of sweet-scented, at ten shillings the hundredweight; for marriage by banns, five shillings; for the preaching of a funeral sermon, forty shillings; for christening'" began Darden for the Bishop's information.
The gown hung loosely over Little John's shoulders and came only to his waist. He was a fine comical sight, and the people began to laugh consumedly at him. "By the faith o' my body," said Robin, "this cloth makes you a man. You're the finest Bishop that ever I saw in my life. Now cry the banns."
"I've asked Hannah to be mine, and she is willing, and we are going to put up the banns next " 'Tony had not noticed that Hannah's father was coming up behind, nor had he noticed that Hannah's face was beginning to bleed from the scratch of a bramble. Hannah had seen her father, and had run to him, crying worse than ever. "My daughter is not willing, sir!" says Mr. Jolliver hot and strong.
Monsieur Cassion surely I am not in error that you informed me of your engagement to Mademoiselle la Chesnayne?" "She has been pledged me in marriage, Monsieur the banns published." I sat with bowed head, my cheeks flaming. "'Tis then as I understood," La Barre went on, chuckling. "The lady is over modest." "I have made no pledge," I broke in desperately.
"It isn't cursing and swearing; it's what the Bible says." "Then we'll leave him to the Bible. In the meantime, Mr. Gibson wants to marry some one else, and that can't hurt you." "He may marry whom he likes; but he shan't marry Bella that's all!" "It is Bella that he means to marry." "Then he won't. I'll forbid the banns. I'll write to the bishop. I'll go to the church and prevent its being done.
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