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 324
thed entirely with skins, and sometimes theywere decorated with oaken leaves, or covered, as above, withivy. XIII.—PARTIAL IMITATIONS OF ANIMALS. The jugglers and the minstrels, observing how lightly theseridiculous disguisements were relished by the people in general,turned their talents towards… … 84. XIV. Century.This presents to us the resemblance of a stag. The following,from the same MS., pictures a goat walking erectly on his hinderfeet.
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