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 467
his balance, for that done, he must inevitablyfall into the water. In the following, from a beautiful book of prayers in thepossession of Francis Douce, esq. the task assigned to the youthis still more difficult, as well from the manner in which he is*ated, as from the nature of the performance,… … 127. The originals of both these engravings were made in the four-teenth century. The subjoined engraving-, also from a drawing in Mr. Doucesbook of prayers, represents two boys seated upon a form bythe side of a Mater-tub; both of them with their hands fixedbelow their knees, and one bending…
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