. Manners and customs of the English nation, from the invation of Julius Cæsar to the present time . , and instead of suits of spades,clubs, hearts, and diamonds, their marks wererabbits, roses, pinks, and flowers of figured cards were prettily devised—a rustic-looking man, grotesquely dressed, and standing ina strange attitude, with a pink by his side, sig-nified the knave of pinks or diamonds. A queenriding with a rabbit beside her, indicated the. queenof rabbits or clubs. Tournaments, hunting, dancing, pageants, anddisguisings, were the diversions of the kings andnobles, as we
. Manners and customs of the English nation, from the invation of Julius Cæsar to the present time . , and instead of suits of spades,clubs, hearts, and diamonds, their marks wererabbits, roses, pinks, and flowers of figured cards were prettily devised—a rustic-looking man, grotesquely dressed, and standing ina strange attitude, with a pink by his side, sig-nified the knave of pinks or diamonds. A queenriding with a rabbit beside her, indicated the. queenof rabbits or clubs. Tournaments, hunting, dancing, pageants, anddisguisings, were the diversions of the kings andnobles, as well as the delight of the peoplewhenever they could witness them. In that daythe drama appeared under the form of Mysteriesand Moralities, or Miracle-plays, which wereacted in the churches and monasteries. Sacredpassages and personages of the Scriptures wereintroduced in the most free and curious and Eve appeared ivithout the slightest aidfrom the draper or tailor, and this too withoutseeming to give rise to any scandal. Poor Noahhad a terrible time of it to get his wife into the ... Football. THE ENGLISH NATION. 125 ark, and when he did succeed, she rewarded himwith a sounding box on the ear, &c. &c. The Tragetours, or jugglers, gave much amuse-ment in the streets, and, according to Chaucer,legerdemain must have reached considerable per-fection, for he says the tragetours could makepeople believe they saw a boat come swimminginto a hall—a lion walk in—flowers spring up asin a meadow—castles, apparently of solid lime andstone, appear, and then vanish again, &c. An ostentatious kind of gallantry, expressiveof the profoundest respect and highest admirationof the beauty and virtues of the fair sex, wasstudied and practised by the martial barons,knights, and esquires. This gallantry was mostshown at grand tournaments, at which the ladiesappeared in their richest dresses. The tourna-ments are attended by many ladies of the firstrank and greatest beauty, dressed i
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