Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions (1810)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802 · London : Printed by T. Bensley, for White and Co. [and 7 more] · leaf 154
e do touch the ground, is accounted to give the fall. If hebe only endangered, and makes a narrow escape, it is called a foyle/ Hethen adds, \ This pastime also hath his laws, for instance; of takinghold above the girdle,—wearing a girdle to take hold by,—playingthree pulls for trial of the…
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