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 300
iolently afflicted with a spas-mus, came six hundred leagues to meet me in a go-cart: I gavehim so speedy an acquittance from his dolor, that the next nighthe danced a saraband with fly-flaps and somersets, &c.: butthis is evidently conjoining the three for the sake of ridicule.The performance… … 64. A Feat in the XIV. Century.* Eetiospecdon of Eighteen Huudied Years, vol. ii. p. 224. Q^ SPORTS AND fAStlMES BOOK 111. Two boys are depicted liolding the lioop, and the fliird pre-paring- to leap througli it, Imving- deposited his cloak upon thesrroiind to receive him. William Stokes, a…
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