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
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… … 128. This trick being done by the one was probably imitated bythe other; I speak however from conjecture only. If it benecessary for him who stoops to take any thing out of the Mater,the pastime will bear some analogy to the diving for applesrepresented by the engraving No. 119, on a preceding…
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