Note 88 — Chapter I · Marriage Laws and Customs.
Reading edition
Ante. idem., pp. 215, 221.
Referring to the custom of stocking-throwing, Rowe, in his “Happy Village,” in 1796 says:
“The wedding-cake now through the ring was led, The stocking thrown across the nuptial bed.”
And in the “Collier’s Wedding,” we read:
“The stocking’s thrown, the company gone, And Tom and Jenny both alone.”