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 477
caught me by the ear and pinched it so severely that Icried for mercy; to the punishment she added this just reproof: That insect has its feelings as youhave ! do you not see that the swift vibrations of its wings are occasioned by the torment it sustains?you have pierced its body without remorse,… … BOOK ITi OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 345 instead of a chafer: the original is contained in a manuscript of thefourteenth century/ This barbarous sport is exceedingly ancient. We find it mentionedby Aristophanes in his comedy of The Clouds.25 It is called in theGreek melolonthe,a which seems to have…
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