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 . d theleast regard to propriety in the depicting of either, but substitutedthose of their own time, and by this means they have, without designon their part, become the communicators of much valuable informa-tion. The following observations upo
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 . d theleast regard to propriety in the depicting of either, but substitutedthose of their own time, and by this means they have, without designon their part, become the communicators of much valuable informa-tion. The following observations upon two very early paintings will, Idoubt not, in great measure confirm the truth of this assertion. Upon e Ghp or Gli^man; hence Gli^amen, glee-games, are properly explained in Somners Lexicon, bymerry tricks, jests, sports, and gambols, which were expressive of their new acquirements. f Qeappene-, the appellation of harper, was long retained by the English rhymists. g In ^Edgars Oration to Dunstan, the mimi, or minstrels, are said to sing and dance; and, in theSaxon canons made in that kings reign, 960, can. 58, it is ordered that no priest shall be a poet,j-ceop, or exercise the mimical or histrionical art, in any degree, public or private. Spel. Concil. torn. 455. Lye renders the words ne semse ^ran S^S6/ nec ullo modo scurram
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