Note 161 — ACT I.
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Girls who fasted on St. Agnes’ night (January 21) dreamed of their future husbands.—“They’ll give anything to know when they shall be married, how many husbands they shall have by Cromnyomantia, a kind of divination with onions laid on the altar on Christmas eve, or by fasting on St. Agnes’ eve or night to know who shall be their first husband.” Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. 1660, p. 538. See the sixth stanza of Keats’ Eve of St. Agnes.