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 185
■2,7, The Pel Quintain—XIV. Century. 20. B. xi.I W\ SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK III. Below is the quititaiu iu the form of a Saracen, from Piuvinel. … 28. Th£ Sabacen Quintain. All English poet who has taken up the subject of chivalry,under the title of Knighthood and Battle, describes theattack of the pel in the following curious manner: Of figlit, the disciplyne, and exerciseWas this. To have a pale or pile uprightOf mannys hight,^ thus writeth…
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