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 (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 154
brydle, With gold burnished full bryght:A payre of gloves, a red gold ringe, A pipe of wine, good faye :What man bereth him best, ywis, The prise shall bear away. ■ A humorous description is given in one of the Spectators ofa country wake: the author there mentions a ring-of wrestlers;the squire,… … 18. Another Representation. The manner in whicli this pastime was exhibited in the westernparts of England, at the distance of two centuries, is thus de-scribed by Carew, an author then living. The beholders thencast, or form themselves into a ring-, in the empty space whereofthe two champions step…
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