Cakes given in Staffordshire and Cheshire on All Soulsʹ Day, to the poor who go a-souling, i.e. begging for soul-cakes. The words used are—
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“Soul, soul, for soul-cake
Pray you, good mistress, a soul cake,”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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