Sussex
At Chailey, the following doggerel is sung at the wassailing of the apple trees:
“Stand fast root, bear well top,
Pray the God send us a good howling crop.
Every twig, apples big,
Every bough, apples enow.
Hats full, caps full,
Full quarters, sacks full.”90
N. & Q. 1st S. vol. v. p. 293.
Notes
90 See Eve of Epiphany, p. 21.