The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 181
27. TiiE Pel Quintain—XIV. CENTuar. 20. B. xi1 114 SPORTS AND PASTIMFS BOOK HI, Below is the quintain in the form of a Saracen, from Pluviuel … 28. The Saeacen Quintain. An English poet who has taken up the subject of chivalryunder the title of Knighthood and Battle, describes theattack of the pel in the following curious manner: Of figbt, the disciplyne, and exercise Was this. To have a pale or pile upright ^ Of mannys hight,* thus…
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