"Fire and flet" is the usual Northern phrase for "fire and house-room": much used in wills and other legal documents, so it would be quite natural to use it in a conjuration.
OED:
3. fire and flet (corruptly fleet): 'fire and house-room'; an expression often occurring in wills, etc.
Bp. Kennett (a 1728) quotes in MS. Lansd. 1033 fol. 132 an 'old northern song over a dead corps', containing the lines 'Fire and fleet and candle light, And Xt receive thy sawle'. In Sir W. Scott's Minstrelsy of Scot. Border (1802) 232 the words appear as 'Fire and sleet', and the editor suggests that sleet 'seems to be corrupted from selt, or salt, a quantity of which is frequently placed on the breast of a corpse'!
1533 Trubb in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 129 To fynd the said wife...mete and drink, fyer and fleit.
1539 Will of R. Morleyn (Somerset Ho.) My wife to have...fyre & fleete in my haule & kechin.
c1570 Durham Depos. (Surtees) 207, I trobled...this house with a bedd roome and fier and fleit.
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"Fire and flet" is the usual Northern phrase for "fire and house-room": much used in wills and other legal documents, so it would be quite natural to use it in a conjuration.
OED:
3. fire and flet (corruptly fleet): 'fire and house-room'; an
expression often occurring in wills, etc.
Bp. Kennett (a 1728) quotes in MS. Lansd. 1033 fol. 132 an 'old
northern song over a dead corps', containing the lines 'Fire and
fleet and candle light, And Xt receive thy sawle'. In Sir W. Scott's
Minstrelsy of Scot. Border (1802) 232 the words appear as 'Fire and
sleet', and the editor suggests that sleet 'seems to be corrupted
from selt, or salt, a quantity of which is frequently placed on the breast
of a corpse'!
1533 Trubb in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 129 To fynd the said wife...mete
and drink, fyer and fleit.
1539 Will of R. Morleyn (Somerset Ho.) My wife to have...fyre & fleete in
my haule & kechin.
c1570 Durham Depos. (Surtees) 207, I trobled...this house with a
bedd roome and fier and fleit.
See also the Dictionary of the Scots Language.
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