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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 286

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ey have formed their swords into a figure, lay themupon the ground, and dance round them. I have not been fortunate enough to meet with any delineationthat accords with the foregoing descriptions of the sword-dance ;but in a Latin manuscript of Prudentius with Saxon notes,written in the ninth… … 60. Sword-Dance. Tlie reader ma\ find a more particular account of the various motions anil ii;::ii)e8formed by ihe dancers, fiom Olalis JMugnus, in IMr. Brands notes upon the 14thchapter of Bournes Vulgar Antiquities, p. 175. • Cleopatra, C. viii. 216 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK III. This drawing…

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