The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-31 00:00:00

ORIGINAL SELECTIONS.

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(FrS the Emit)* Gazette.]
CVATOI4S AND CEREMONIEst.
bases Fgeoests.—A knot, Smoug the soden( c00p,,,
nations, seems to have bees Ilse symbol of love. faith, 11,
frieedship, poisliag out the isditeoluble lie of affection aid
duty. Thus the ardent Ramie isscriptioes, as .e rah,
from Iffeike's Thalmann's, are is the form of • toot. Nntrr
anions the northers English and Scots, who still rate., ,
real measure, the language sad asses of ths meant
Dawes, that curious kind of hoot, a mutest present hear,"
the lever and his mistress, white, being considered as
emblem of plighted fidelity, is therefore called a Tete-love
Knot : a name which is not derived, as 0.. e would asturslif
suppose it to be, from the words True" sad " Love» bmi
formed from the Danish verb" 71,thrfo," 'dem do, I plight
my troth or faith. Thee we reed, i. t4e Ishoolie Gaspe.
the following passage is the Arse chapter of et. Nlllllll.l
which coslirms, beyond • doebt, the reuse to, .
• Til einrar Meyer er trulistad war Mosta &,
i.e. to a Timis 'spooled, that id, who was pruw.c.l, t, ;,.,
engaged herself to a maw, ter.
Hence, evidently, the brole.favours, or the top Imo., I
marriages, which had bees cressidereJ as emblem, ur u,, ,
of duly and erection between the bride and her spouse, h....
been derived.
Bride bosun appear to have bees wore by the petsans•,
of nonce, oe similar occasions, ow the arm. In Ewen.'
these kerma of rildsoes were distributed in great obi/eds.,
formerly, eves at the marriages of persons of the list it..
tinctios. They were worn aos the hat (she gestteusse's, a,
suppose), asd consisted of ribbons of venues reknit..
we mistake not, while Ablated' are the may oars used at
presest. To this variety of colours is the bride favonn *owl
formerly, the following passage, wherein Lady Haughty ad.
dresses Nome, is James play of the Silent Women,
evidently alludes.—
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" Let to know your Bride's coloors and youn at least."
The bride favours have not been omitted in the !sunbelt%
provincial poem of TA* Collier's Wedding—.
" The blithsome, backmost toiletry maids,
With Ertats of Ritsbanfle at their heads,
And pioners Metering in the wind,
That fan before and toss behind," dec.
And, speaking of the youth with t►e bridegroom, it n'
" Like streamers i■ the painted ay,
At every breast the Famous Ay."

BR/DE Mmeas.—The woe of bride maids at weddiere sp.
pears as old as the thsteof the Anglo/stow; Among whoa., as
Stroll informs iss, "the Bride was led by o Malroo, who wee
culled the Bride's Worms*, followed by a company of yomq
?asides*, who were called the Bride's Maids."

The bride maids and bridegroom men ere both mestiosed
by Ike mother of the Convivial Antiquities, in his Desenp•
lion of the Rites at Marriages in his Ci. malty cod Time.
In later times, it was among the ogees of the bride said
to lead the bridegroom to church, as it was the ditty of the
bridegroom's men to conduct the bride thither.
This haunt been overlooked is the provincial poem of
The Wedding :
" Two limy lads, well drest and strong,
Step't out to lead the bride along:
And two young maid*, of equal use,
As loom the bridegroom's hands surprise."
It was no invariable rule for the men always to depot
the room till the bride was undressed by her inside and pet
to bed.

Bottsrlantiom Max —These appear taciestly to hart•
had the title of Bride Mairlits. Those who led t►e bride
to chords were always bachelors : bat she was to be ma-
dames' home by two married person, Putydore Very', oho
wrote in the time of Hemp the Eighth, lofoross as that a
dried married mom, is coming bow from dwell. preceded
sh. bride, bearing, instead of • torch, a resort of silver sr
litoresio relate*, that to ilw. bachelors sod mauled
Mee who led the bride to sod from she dwell sbe was
woof to geese.. gloves fir that service dorm( the timed
dimmer.