Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions . BOOK IV. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 349 of honour. The speech consists of high-flown compliments calculatedto natter the vanity of the stranger; and as soon as it is concluded,the maids of honour rising suddenly together, the counterpane ofcour
Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions . BOOK IV. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 349 of honour. The speech consists of high-flown compliments calculatedto natter the vanity of the stranger; and as soon as it is concluded,the maids of honour rising suddenly together, the counterpane ofcourse gives way, and poor miss is unexpectedly immerged in the water. XIV. Building of houses with cards, and such like materials, is avery common amusement with children, as well as drawing little wag-gons, carts, and coaches; and sometimes boys will harness dogs andother animals, and put them to their waggons in imitation of horses/ Questions and Commands, a childish pastime, which though some-what different in the modern modification, most probably derived itsorigin from the basilinday of the Greeks, in which we are told a king,elected by lot, commanded his comrades what they should perform. Handy-dandy, a play/ says Johnson, 6 in which children changehands and places; this seems clear enough according to the followingquotation from Shakespeare:
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