. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . reason. JThe Venetian says, They think that tliere are no other men than tliemselves,and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsomeforeigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman. The lords of liumankind have now, for the most part, absorbed the pride of country into anarrower circle. It is the pride of possession, the dignity of his own estate,liis stock, his house, his carriage, liis liveries, liis dinners, and liis wine,that now marks tlie hi
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . reason. JThe Venetian says, They think that tliere are no other men than tliemselves,and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsomeforeigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman. The lords of liumankind have now, for the most part, absorbed the pride of country into anarrower circle. It is the pride of possession, the dignity of his own estate,liis stock, his house, his carriage, liis liveries, liis dinners, and liis wine,that now marks tlie high-blown patriotic native. His country is chiefly • Italian Relation, p. 22. t / /•. I- •i-- t Letter of 1527. 1509.] NATIONAL PRIDE. 25i nd valued aa coniprehending whatever ministers to his individual glorygratification. The perilous joustings of the lists of the kings manor of Shene; * thesolemn banquets of GuildhaU; the Lords of Misrule at the festivals of thecourt and the city; the Masks and Disguisiugs of royal and noble palaces,—these were but reflections of the spirit of activity and enjoyment that abided. Maypole before St. Andrew Uudershaft. m the people, amidst many physical privations and a general absence of whatwe call comfort. The antique pageantry of Christmas, the old merrimentsof Easter and May-Day, were transmitted from a higher antiquity. It wasthe poetry of the mised British, Eoman, and Saxon race, blending with thefestivals of the early Christian church, and popularly kept up in the mixedexcitement of reverence and frolic. These ceremonials, in their originalsimplicity so associated with the love of nature—witli the holly and ivy ofDecember, the linden of the early spring, the blossoms of the life-stirringMay—were especially attractive to the inhabitants of the crowded citizens of Cornhill had danced under the May-pole beneath St. Andrewschurch from time immemorial. The parishes had joined from the earliest * Sir James Parker was slai
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