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 225
attributed somewhat of divinity to the fair sex. Ibid. vol. i. page 32~. As the ladies, say some modern authors, were lame, the soul of the justs, it was proper that theyshould be therein distinguished by some peculiar homage; accordingly at the termination of a just withlances the last course was… … BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 131 ornamented with their arms, banners, and banerolls; the scaffolds forthe reception of the nobility of both sexes who came as spectators, andthose especially appointed for the royal family, were hung with tapestryand embroideries of gold and silver: every…
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