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 299
Balancing.—XIV. Century. This engraving, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library, representsa girl, as the length of the hair seems to indicate, habited likea boy, and kneeling on a large broad board, supported horizon-tally by two men; before her are three swords, the points in-clined to each other,… … 66. Balancing.—XIV. Century. 1 he nian in this engraving, from a drawing in a MS. book ofprayers possessed by Francis Douce, esq., is performing a very > No. 264. CHAP. V. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 233 difficult operation : he has placed one sword upright upon thehilt, and is attempting to do…
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