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 445
114. A Green Mam. [In 1800.] « See p. 375. See p. 375 ; and the Introduction ; whence it appears these green men attendedthe pageants, and precsded the principal persons in the procession to clear the way. 378 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV. This engraving, representing the character equipped in… … J 15. A WODEHOVSE. This character, which is that of a wild or savage man, wasvery common in the pageants of former times, and seems to havebeen very popular. It was in a dress like this, I suppose,that Gascoyne appeared before queen Elizabeth; see p. 253.The figure itself is taken fromabaliad, in…
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