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 320
irely with skins, and sometimes theywere decorated with oaken leaves, or covered, as above, withivy. XIII PARTIAL IMITATIONS OF ANIMALS, The jugg-lers and the minstrels, observing* how lightly theseridiculous disguisements were relished by the people in general,turned their talents towards the… … 84. XIV. Century. This presents to us the resemblance of a stag. The following*from the same MS., pictures a goat walking erectly on his indeifeet.
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