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 325
great advantage, with acertainty of commanding- the plaudits of his beholders. It wasalso possible to heighten the whimsical appearance of thisdis-g-uise by a motion communicated to the head; a trick the manmight easily enough perform, by putting one of his arms intothe hollow of his neck; and… … 86. XIV. Century. In the original there are two more boys, who are following,diso-uised in a similar manner, and each of them holding a likescroll of parchment. The wit of this performance, I protest, Icannot discover. XIV.—THE HORSE IN THE MORRIS-DANCE.The prancing and curveting of horses was…
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