A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14

Note 270 — SCENE VII.

Reading edition

To fling an old shoe after a person to produce good luck is a custom still spoken of, and hardly yet disused. It is mentioned in many writers: as in "The Wild Goose Chase," act ii. sc. 1—

"If ye see us close once, Begone, and leave me to my fortune suddenly, For I am then determined to do wonders. Farewell, and fling an old shoe."

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