Women told Aubrey that the dreams of a future husband came on St Agnes’s night, 21 January, and not on St Anne’s night. Ben Jonson, they said, had been out as to the night. Aubrey set their correction down as a memorandum.
Ben Jonson mistook the night
21 January · England
Lore and belief
'Tis on St. Agnes night (January 21) not St. Annes night, that ye Dreames are given. Ben Johnson (the woemen tell me) was out as to St. Anne's night.
From Aubrey's Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, p. 54. Read the original
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