The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... with Four Hundred and Thirty-six Engravings, Volume 3Thomas Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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... plays , Of merriment , and mirth , and bonfire blaze ; I tell of Christmas - mummings , new year's day , Of twelfth - night king and queen , and children's play ; I tell of Valentine's , and truelove's knots , Of omens , cunning - men ...
... plays , Of merriment , and mirth , and bonfire blaze ; I tell of Christmas - mummings , new year's day , Of twelfth - night king and queen , and children's play ; I tell of Valentine's , and truelove's knots , Of omens , cunning - men ...
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... plays at Coventry . This engraving is from a very curious print in Mr. Sharp's " Dissertatien on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries , anciently ... Play . Carrying the " Holly Tree " at Brough , Westmoreland. 11 12 THE TABLE - BOOK . ...
... plays at Coventry . This engraving is from a very curious print in Mr. Sharp's " Dissertatien on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries , anciently ... Play . Carrying the " Holly Tree " at Brough , Westmoreland. 11 12 THE TABLE - BOOK . ...
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... plays , not yet printed , nor likely to be , unless there are sixty persons , at this time suffici- ently concerned for our ancient literature and manners , to encourage a spirited gen- tleman to print a limited number of copies . If by ...
... plays , not yet printed , nor likely to be , unless there are sixty persons , at this time suffici- ently concerned for our ancient literature and manners , to encourage a spirited gen- tleman to print a limited number of copies . If by ...
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... play ; He must live in the draper's house , And chase the rat , and catch the mouse , And all day long in silence go Through bales of cotton and calico . After the king of England fam'd , The red red kitten was Rufus nam'd . And as king ...
... play ; He must live in the draper's house , And chase the rat , and catch the mouse , And all day long in silence go Through bales of cotton and calico . After the king of England fam'd , The red red kitten was Rufus nam'd . And as king ...
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... play ; a trial of swiftness . " Sidney , in his description of the rural courtship of Urania by Strephon , conveys a sufficient idea of " Barley - break . " The shepherd seeks the society of his mistress wherever he thinks it likely to ...
... play ; a trial of swiftness . " Sidney , in his description of the rural courtship of Urania by Strephon , conveys a sufficient idea of " Barley - break . " The shepherd seeks the society of his mistress wherever he thinks it likely to ...
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