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 227
dern writer justly observes,were destitute of character and humour, their chief aim beingto surprise the spectators by the ridiculous and exaggeratedoddity of the visors, and by the singularity and splendour ofthe dresses; every thing was out of nature and propriety.Frequently the masque was… … 47. Mummers.—XIV. Cf.ntup.y. These, and the other figures m the subjoined engraving, aretaken from a beautiful manuscript in the Bodleian Library,written and illuminated in the reign of Edward III.^
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