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 . ys, 6 At this day tilting at the quintain is used where ahoop or ring is struck with a lance: hence it is clear, that the ring wasput in the place of the quintain. The excellency of the pastime wasto ride at full speed, and thrust the point of
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 . ys, 6 At this day tilting at the quintain is used where ahoop or ring is struck with a lance: hence it is clear, that the ring wasput in the place of the quintain. The excellency of the pastime wasto ride at full speed, and thrust the point of the lance through the ring, t The contest between the two figures at the bottom of the same plate, seems to depend upon thebreaking of the stick which both of them hold, or a struggle to overthrow each other. « The two contending figures arc from a MS. Book of Prayers in the possession of F. Douce,esq< the single figure from the Oxford MS. referred to, note ri, page 109, both of the fourteenth century. w With the Italians, says Du Cange, quintano sometimes signifies a ring, hence the Florentines say,* correr alia quintana, which with us is called running at the ring; the learned author produces severalquotations to the same purpose, to which the reader is referred. Gloss, in voce quintana. x Orbis Sensualium Pictus, published by Hoole,
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