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Updated: July 1, 2025
And it is only two days sennight that I coming suddenly in did find Sarah with my new silk Hood upon her Frowsy head and Will discoursing with her and thrumming upon Sam'l his viallin.
"She is a witch a cursed witch!" they cried. "She is a woman," says Beltane. "Aye a devil-woman a notable witch we know her of old!" "Verily," cried one, "'tis but a sennight since she plagued me with aching teeth " "And me with an ague!" cried another. "She bewitched my shafts that they all flew wide o' the mark!" cried a third. "She cast on me a spell whereby I nigh did perish i' the fen "
And when the people came together he would call out, "O yes, O yes, O yes, know ye that His Grace the King will give on Monday sennight" that meant seven nights or a week after "a Royal Ball to which all maidens of noble birth are hereby summoned; and be it furthermore known unto you that at this ball his Highness the Prince will select unto himself a lady that shall be his bride and our future Queen.
"Shall I tell thee of two deeds done but this sennight past, that I saw through yonder lattice as I sat at my painting? Go to!
For God doeth all His work well; and He wist surely what He did when my dear father whose soul God rest! was let wed me thus. "Behold now, most dear mother, how I have taken from you all cause of your lamentation, and have left you nothing but to rejoice for me! Wherefore rejoice for me, for at this time a sennight hence, I shall be singing with the angels of God.
'You have spoken of many things and wisely, after a woman's fashion of book-learning. Now I am minded that you should hear me speak upon the Word of God which is a man's matter and a King's. This day sennight I am to have brought to my closet a heretic, Dr Barnes. If ye will ye may hear me confound him with goodly doctrines. He raised both his eyebrows heavily and looked first at the Lady Mary.
According to the Druids, they came out of darkness, ab Dite Patre; they called themselves Children of Night, counting time by nights instead of days, as we say fortnight and sennight. Comparison of language has taught us that they were a branch of the great Aryan race, one of the first which rolled westward into Europe, before Greeks or Latins had been heard of.
"Nay, I know no more than that he came hither seeking Margaret Brandt, and I told him she and her father had made a moonlight flit on't this day sennight, and that some thought the devil had flown away with them, being magicians. 'And, says he, 'the devil fly away with thee for thy ill news; that was my thanks. 'But I doubt 'tis a lie, said he.
'He will burn seven of them on to-morrow sennight, Cranmer said. 'Nay! I shall enlarge them on Wednesday. Cranmer shivered. 'They grow very insolent. I am afraid. Cromwell answered with a studied nonchalance: 'My bones tell me it shall be an eastward wind. It shall not rain on the new Queen's bridals. He drank up his warm wine and brushed the crumbs from the furs round his neck.
"I have joined the wing, father, and I have imped the feathers; but I fear it will be Christmas ere she can fly again." "This is a hard saying," said Sir John; "for indeed I have seen no bolder better bird. Her wing was broken by a heron's beak last Sabbath sennight, holy father, and Mary has the mending of it."
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