. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners : with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare ; on the collection of popular tales entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris dance. s, bracelets, eare-rings, wyertyers, and silke gir-dles and handkerchers for a morice and a show before thequeene. The handkerchiefs, or napkinsj as they are some-times called, were held in the hand, or tied to the shoulders.§In Shirleys Lady of pleasure, 1637, Act I., Aretina thus in-veighs against the amusements of the country: to observe with what solemnity They keep their wakes, and
. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners : with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare ; on the collection of popular tales entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris dance. s, bracelets, eare-rings, wyertyers, and silke gir-dles and handkerchers for a morice and a show before thequeene. The handkerchiefs, or napkinsj as they are some-times called, were held in the hand, or tied to the shoulders.§In Shirleys Lady of pleasure, 1637, Act I., Aretina thus in-veighs against the amusements of the country: to observe with what solemnity They keep their wakes, and throw for pewter candlestickes, How they become the morris, with whose bells They ring all into Whitson ales, and sweate Through twenty scarftes and napkins, till the Hobby horse Tire, and the maide Marrian dissolvd to a gelly, Be kept for spoone meate. * See Rowleys Witch of Edmonton, 1658, Act I. Scene 2. f Stubbes, ubi supra. Knight of the burning pestle, Act IV. I Stubbes, ubi supra. Jonsons Masque of gipsies. Ylolmes Jcademi/ ofarmory, book iii. p. 169, whence the following cut has been borrowed, which,rude as it is, may serve to convey some idea of the manner in which thehandkerchiefs were § Knight of the burning pestle, Act IV. G04 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SIIAKSPEARE. ■ The early use of the feather in the hat appears both inMr. Tolletts window and the Flemish print; a fashion thatwas continued a long time afterwards.* Sometimes the hatwas decorated with a nosegay^t or with the herb thrift, for-merly called our ladys Enough has been said to show that the collective numberof the morris dancers has continually varied according tocircumstances^ in the same manner as did their habits. InIsraels print they are nine: in Mr. Tolletts window, Strutt has observed that on his sixteenth plate there areonly five, exclusive of the two musicians : but it is conceivedthat what he refers to is not a morris, but a dance of is a pamphlet entitled Old Me
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