The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England ...William Tegg, 1850 - 420 Seiten |
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... Kings and Nobility - XXI . Royal and noble Entertain- ments - XXII . Civic Shows - XXIII . Setting out of Pageants - XXIV . Processions of Queen Mary and King Philip of Spain in London - XXV . Chester Pageants - XXVI . Public Shows of ...
... Kings and Nobility - XXI . Royal and noble Entertain- ments - XXII . Civic Shows - XXIII . Setting out of Pageants - XXIV . Processions of Queen Mary and King Philip of Spain in London - XXV . Chester Pageants - XXVI . Public Shows of ...
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... King of the Minstrels , why so called - XXI . Rewards given to Minstrels - XXII . Payments to Minstrels - XXIII . Wealth of certain Minstrels - XXIV . Min- stre's were sometimes Dancing Masters .... PAGE 170 CHAPTER IV . I. The ...
... King of the Minstrels , why so called - XXI . Rewards given to Minstrels - XXII . Payments to Minstrels - XXIII . Wealth of certain Minstrels - XXIV . Min- stre's were sometimes Dancing Masters .... PAGE 170 CHAPTER IV . I. The ...
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... King's Revels - IV . The Lord of Misrule and his Conduct reprobated - V . The King of Christmas - of the Cockneys - VI . A King of Christmas at Norwich - VII . The King of the Bean - VIII . Whence originated - IX . The Festival of Fools ...
... King's Revels - IV . The Lord of Misrule and his Conduct reprobated - V . The King of Christmas - of the Cockneys - VI . A King of Christmas at Norwich - VII . The King of the Bean - VIII . Whence originated - IX . The Festival of Fools ...
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... Kings and No- bility . - XXI . Royal and noble Entertainments . - XXII . Civic Shows . - XXIII Setting out of Pageants . - XXIV . Processions of Queen Mary and King Philip of Spain in London . - XXV . Chester Pageants . - XXVI . Public ...
... Kings and No- bility . - XXI . Royal and noble Entertainments . - XXII . Civic Shows . - XXIII Setting out of Pageants . - XXIV . Processions of Queen Mary and King Philip of Spain in London . - XXV . Chester Pageants . - XXVI . Public ...
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... king , for to assaie him , made justes and turnies ; and no man did so well as he , in runnyng , playing at the pame , 3 shotyng , and castyng of the barre , ne found he his maister . " 4 VIII . - ESQUIRESHIP . The laws of chivalry ...
... king , for to assaie him , made justes and turnies ; and no man did so well as he , in runnyng , playing at the pame , 3 shotyng , and castyng of the barre , ne found he his maister . " 4 VIII . - ESQUIRESHIP . The laws of chivalry ...
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Seite 152 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Seite 158 - The country people flock from all sides, many miles off, to hear and see it ; for they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the eare ; the players conne not their parts without booke, but are prompted by one called the ordinary, who followeth at their back with the book in his hand, and telleth them softly what they must pronounce aloud.
Seite 166 - At Crawley's Booth, over against the Crown Tavern in Smithfield, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a little opera, called the Old Creation of the World...
Seite liv - ... of temper ; as they do some other entertainments peculiar to our nation : I mean those elegant diversions of bull-baiting and prize-fighting, with the like ingenious recreations of the beargarden. I wish I knew how to answer this reproach which is cast upon us, and excuse the death of so many innocent cocks, bulls, dogs, and bears, as have been set together by the ears, or died untimely deaths, only to make us sport.
Seite 353 - Let Ralph come out on May-day in the morning, and speak upon a conduit, with all his scarfs about him, and his feathers, and his rings, and his knacks.
Seite 288 - Year. When I considered the Fragrancy of the Walks and Bowers, with the Choirs of Birds that sung upon the Trees, and the loose Tribe of People that walked under their Shades, I could not but look upon the Place as a kind of Mahometan Paradise.
Seite 261 - Sword and buckler fight begins to grow out of use. I am sorry for it : I shall never see good manhood again. If it be once gone, this poking fight of rapier and dagger will come up; then a tall man and a good sword and buckler man, will be spitted like a cat or rabbit.
Seite 351 - On the calends, or the first day of May, commonly called May-day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns ; where they break down branches from the trees, and adorn them with nosegays and crowns of flowers.
Seite 154 - But here is never a fiend to carry him away. Besides, he has never a wooden dagger I 1 would not give a rush for a Vice, that has not a wooden dagger to snap at every body he meets. Mirth. That was the old way, gossip, when Iniquity came in like Hokos Pokos, in a juggler's jerkin, with false skirts, like the knave of clubs; but now they are attired like men and women of the time, the vices male and female.
Seite 369 - squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale, and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls.