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... distance of more than four centuries , that it was then customary for the maidens , after evening prayers , to dance in the presence of their masters and mistresses , while one of their companions played the measure upon a timbrel ; and ...
... distance of more than four centuries , that it was then customary for the maidens , after evening prayers , to dance in the presence of their masters and mistresses , while one of their companions played the measure upon a timbrel ; and ...
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... distance , was a prodigious number of other minstrels , making a great sound with cornets , shaulms , flutes , horns , 2 pipes of various kinds , and some of them made with green corn , such as are used by shepherds ' boys ; there were ...
... distance , was a prodigious number of other minstrels , making a great sound with cornets , shaulms , flutes , horns , 2 pipes of various kinds , and some of them made with green corn , such as are used by shepherds ' boys ; there were ...
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... distances , in places appointed for the purpose , the pageants were erected , which were temporary buildings representing castles , palaces , gardens , rocks , or forests , as the occasion re- quired , where nymphs , fawns , satyrs ...
... distances , in places appointed for the purpose , the pageants were erected , which were temporary buildings representing castles , palaces , gardens , rocks , or forests , as the occasion re- quired , where nymphs , fawns , satyrs ...
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... distance . The yeo- men of the king's bow , and the grooms of his tutored grey- hounds , 2 had in charge to secure the king's standing , and pre- vent any noise being made to disturb the game before the arrival of his majesty . When the ...
... distance . The yeo- men of the king's bow , and the grooms of his tutored grey- hounds , 2 had in charge to secure the king's standing , and pre- vent any noise being made to disturb the game before the arrival of his majesty . When the ...
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... distance posts , weighing the riders , loading them with weights , and many other niceties that are observed in the present day . The Chester races were instituted merely for amusement , but now such prodigious sums are usually ...
... distance posts , weighing the riders , loading them with weights , and many other niceties that are observed in the present day . The Chester races were instituted merely for amusement , but now such prodigious sums are usually ...
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Page 270 - This might be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?
Page 150 - 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.
Page 156 - 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.
Page 395 - What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page xlix - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page ii - To be returned in five weeks. A fine of one cent will be incurred for each day this volume is detained beyond that time.
Page xxxi - ... and balladines to win their bread with : but the exercises that I would have you to use, although but moderately, not making a craft of them, are running, leaping, wrestling, fencing, dancing, and playing at the caitch, or tennise, archerie, palle-malle, and such like other fair and pleasant field-games.
Page 367 - 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.
Page 256 - It was a sport very pleasant to see the bear, with his pink eyes learing after his enemies, approach ; the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage ; and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults : if he were bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free ; that if he were taken once, then...
Page 256 - ... taken once, then what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them, and when he was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice, with tbe...