The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . entory of goods of the Sheriff of Nottingham,taken by Lytell John, as printed by Wynken de Worde, in thepopular black-letter ballad,— A Lytell geste of liobyn Hode ; andit is thus introduced in the fine old Scottish ballad of Gill Morice, Then up an spak the bauld bai-on, An angry man was he; Hes taen the table wi his foot, Sae has he wi his knee,Till siller cup an mazer dishIn flinders he garrd flee. The mazer cup was evidently regarded as a family heirloom, andas such inscribed with quaint legends and pious aphorisms, and some-times decora
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . entory of goods of the Sheriff of Nottingham,taken by Lytell John, as printed by Wynken de Worde, in thepopular black-letter ballad,— A Lytell geste of liobyn Hode ; andit is thus introduced in the fine old Scottish ballad of Gill Morice, Then up an spak the bauld bai-on, An angry man was he; Hes taen the table wi his foot, Sae has he wi his knee,Till siller cup an mazer dishIn flinders he garrd flee. The mazer cup was evidently regarded as a family heirloom, andas such inscribed with quaint legends and pious aphorisms, and some-times decorated with rich chasing and carving, as Chaucer has sobeautifully described in the Mazer yrought of the maple, men-tioned in his Shepherds Callendcr. The quaint simplicity, both ofthe devices and inscriptions of many of the wassail bowls, furnishescurious illustration of the manners and ideas of the age to which theybelong. Our forefathers had a pious, but withal a very convenientfashion, of uniting religion with their daily sports, and even, as it. Wazer of Oie Fourtefen-Ji Century. might seem, seeking to sanctify their excesses. Both Chaucer andDunbar wind up their freest versions of the Decameron with a piouscouplet, and in like spirit the old toper invoked the Trinity on therim of his wassail bowl, and engraved the mystic saint Christopherwithin it. The woodcut represents a very beautiful mazer of thetime of Richard II., now in the possession of Evelyn Philip Shirley,Esq., It is made of highly polished wood, apparently maple, 074 THE CHKISTIAN PERIOD. and hooped with a richly embossed rim of silver gilt, on which is in-scribed, as shewn in the annexed fac-simile of a portion of the edgleof sylver, the following characteristic invocation:— In . tfiz. name. of. if^z. tnnitiefiUe. t^E. feup . anti. Urink . to. mt. Fiom the tenor of such legends frequently inscribed on these an-cient cups, it has not been uncommon to describe them as sacred ves-sels, designed only for us
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