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 . BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 225 The savage men, or wodehouses, as they are sometimes called, fre-quently made their appearance in the public shows; they were some-times clothed entirely with skins, and sometimes they were decoratedwith
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 . BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 225 The savage men, or wodehouses, as they are sometimes called, fre-quently made their appearance in the public shows; they were some-times clothed entirely with skins, and sometimes they were decoratedwith oaken leaves, or covered, as above, with ivy. XIII. The jugglers, and the minstrels, observing how lightly theseridiculous disguisements were relished by the people in general, turnedtheir talents towards the imitating of different animals, and renderedtheir exhibitions more pleasing by the addition of their new acquire-ments. On the twenty-fifth plate are three specimens of their One of them presents to us the resemblance of a stag; anotherthat of a goat walking erectly on his hinder feet. Neither of these fic-titious animals have any fore legs ; but to the first the deficiency is sup-plied by a staff, upon which the actor might recline at pleasure; hisface is seen through an aperture on the breast; and, I doubt not, aperson was
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