Ontario High School History of England . ittle toread except books ofdevotion. Women ofthe lower classesworked in the fields,and their poor hov-els must have hadbut scanty amusements,chess, backgammon,and similar gameswere not unknown, but playing cards were a later was much singing of a rude kind,often by wanderinggleemen and musicians. Hunting and horse-racing werefavourite sports, and gambling, excessive drinking, andfighting were common in a society which had few of therefinements of modern life. Education.—Education was wholly in the hands of theclergy, and c
Ontario High School History of England . ittle toread except books ofdevotion. Women ofthe lower classesworked in the fields,and their poor hov-els must have hadbut scanty amusements,chess, backgammon,and similar gameswere not unknown, but playing cards were a later was much singing of a rude kind,often by wanderinggleemen and musicians. Hunting and horse-racing werefavourite sports, and gambling, excessive drinking, andfighting were common in a society which had few of therefinements of modern life. Education.—Education was wholly in the hands of theclergy, and consisted of the simplest elements, with muchattention to music for the church services. Few of thevillage children went to school; among at least the lowerclasses only those intended for the clerical profession learnedto read. Yet England was not without its literature. Atthe feasts even the humblest sometimes took their turn tosing, to chant verses, or to play the harp. In Northum-bria the deeds of Beowulf, a hero of the English when. Gentleman and Lady, Tenth CenturyNote especially the mans costume. 40 HISTORY OF ENGLAND they still dwelt in northern Europe, were sung as earlyas in the sixth century, and this tale became currentfrom one end of England to the other. By the tenth cen-tuiy it had become the great Enghsh epicpoem, still preserved under the name ;;^irdmpn, a simple cowherd inthe days ^hen Theodore was organizingthe forces of the English church (about,675), would steal away in shame fromthe feast to the cattle-shed, because hisown verses and song were so rude that
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