. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . OUTSIDE .i.\ I.\X.(MS. 204: notlkknt Library, Oxfonl.) 360 THE BLACK TiEATlI. AND AFTKRWAEDS. TravellersAfoot. called ail alestake, from the end of which hung a bunch orbush of ivy—the plant sacred to Bacchus. Hence the pro-verb that (Jood wine needs no Apparently thesealehouses were kept ordinarily by women: in contemporarypictures it is invariably a woman who appears at the door,jug in han
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . OUTSIDE .i.\ I.\X.(MS. 204: notlkknt Library, Oxfonl.) 360 THE BLACK TiEATlI. AND AFTKRWAEDS. TravellersAfoot. called ail alestake, from the end of which hung a bunch orbush of ivy—the plant sacred to Bacchus. Hence the pro-verb that (Jood wine needs no Apparently thesealehouses were kept ordinarily by women: in contemporarypictures it is invariably a woman who appears at the door,jug in hand: while the ale-wife was notorious for her dishonestdealings. They were for the most part places of bad repute,too often the scenes of the quarrels of drunken peasants andof the revels of all the disreputable characters, male andfemale, in the neighbourhood. The respectable travellerwould quench his thirst and pass on. The travellers on foot would be far more numerous thanthose who journeyed either on horseback or in any kind ofeonvej-ance. They would fall roughly into the two classesof lay and religions waj-farers. The laywanderers may be distinguished as thosewlio suppilied j^e
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