. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1785.—Playing at Bucklers.—Maids dancing for 1786.—^ole beforj St. Andrew U;.d rsha t. No. 64.—Yol. II. 4 121 ±22 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. Let us suppose the scene to be London ; where the most famous ofthe May-poles was the one of St. Andrew, on Cornhill, called Un-dershaft, on account of the great height of the shaft or pole, whichsoared above the steeple (Fig. 1786). On that spot, now so coveredwith houses, the masquers and mummers then played their pranks,the music filled
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1785.—Playing at Bucklers.—Maids dancing for 1786.—^ole beforj St. Andrew U;.d rsha t. No. 64.—Yol. II. 4 121 ±22 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. Let us suppose the scene to be London ; where the most famous ofthe May-poles was the one of St. Andrew, on Cornhill, called Un-dershaft, on account of the great height of the shaft or pole, whichsoared above the steeple (Fig. 1786). On that spot, now so coveredwith houses, the masquers and mummers then played their pranks,the music filled the air with its sweet and joy-inspiring sounds, andthe vicinity everywhere presented the aspect so delightfully describedby Herrick in the line— Each field grew a streot, each street a park: go uxuriantly was every owelling enclosed in the green riflings ofthe neighbouring woods. There, too, year by year, was exhibitedthe loveliest and most poetical of all the May-day scenes; andwhich has been thus described by a delightful but little knownpoet,— I have seen the Lady of the May-Set in an arbour (on a holy-day)Built by the May-pole, where the jo
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