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 296
olently afilicted with a spas-mus, came six hundred leagues to meet me in a go-cart: I gavehim so speedy an acquittance from his dolor, that the next nighthe danced a saraband with fly-flaps and somersets, &c.: butthis is evidently conjoining the three for (he sake of ridicule.The performance… … 61. A Feat in tie XIV. CENTunv.* Retiosiiection of Eighteen MandreJ Years, vol. ii. j). ^ii. 23() SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK HI. Two boys are depicted holding- the hoop, and the third pre-paring to leap through it, having deposited his cloak upon theground to receive him. William Stokes, a vaulting…
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