Note 657 — Chapter IX · THE SWORD-DANCE
Reading edition
Mrs. Gomme, ii. 399, 494 and s. vv.; Haddon, 340. Similar games are widespread on the continent; cf. the Rabelais quotation on p. 167. Haddon quotes a French formula, ending
‘Aveine, aveine, aveine, Que le Bon Dieu t’amène.’