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 243
pts; and wherethey do occur, we uniformly find that the illuminators, beingtotally ignorant of ancient customs and tlie habits of foreignnations, have not paid the least regard to propriety in the de-picting of either, but substituted those of their own time, andby this means they have, without… … 49. Anglo-Saxon Dance.—VIII. Century. This engraving represents two persons dancing to the musicof the horn and the trumpet, and it does not appear to be acommon dance in which they are engaged ; on the contrary, theirattitudes are such as must have rendered it very difiicult to per-form. On the…
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