. Rush-bearing: an account of the old custom of strewing rushes; carrying rushes to church; the rush-cart; garlands in churches; morris-dancers; the wakes; the rush. ere notall beside themselves, that they so lipd and skipdwithout an occasion. \ Shakspeare, in Henry V., mentions the Whitsunmorris-dance : And let us do it with no show of fear;No ! with no more than if we heard that EnglandWere busied with a Whitsun morris-dance. And in another play, Alls Well that Ends Well,act ii., sc. 2, he speaks of the fitness of a morris forMay-day. In later times the morris was frequentlyintroduced upon t
. Rush-bearing: an account of the old custom of strewing rushes; carrying rushes to church; the rush-cart; garlands in churches; morris-dancers; the wakes; the rush. ere notall beside themselves, that they so lipd and skipdwithout an occasion. \ Shakspeare, in Henry V., mentions the Whitsunmorris-dance : And let us do it with no show of fear;No ! with no more than if we heard that EnglandWere busied with a Whitsun morris-dance. And in another play, Alls Well that Ends Well,act ii., sc. 2, he speaks of the fitness of a morris forMay-day. In later times the morris was frequentlyintroduced upon the stage. Stephen Gosson, whowrote about 1579, in a little tract entitled PlayersConfuted, speaks of dauncing of gigges, galiardes,and morices, with hobbi-horses, as stage , in his Hesperides, speaking of countryblessings, says among them were : Thy Wakes, thy Quintals, here thou hast,Thy Maypoles, too, with garlands gract:Thy Morris-dance ; thy Whitsun ale ;Thy Sheering flat, which never fail. * Langleys Antiquities of Desborough, 1797, 4to-> P- r42- t Strypes Eccl. Memorials, iii., p. 376. J Brands Observations on Popular THE MORRIS-DANCERS. 109 In Lanehams letter from Kenilworth Castle, aBride Ale is described, in which mention is made of alively Moris-dauns, according to the Auncient manner :six dauncerz, Mawdmarion, and the fool. To the puritans, the morris-dance was particularlyobnoxious, and their diatribes against it are numerousand severe. Stubbes, in his Anatomie of Abuses,1585, p. 107, describes it as follows : They strike upthe Devils Dauncc withall, then martch this heathencompany towards the church and churchyarde, theirpypers pyping, their drummers thundering, theirstumpes clauncing, their belles ingling, their handker-chiefes fluttering about their heacles like madde men,their hobbie-horses and other monsters skirmishingamongst the throng ; and in this sorte they go to thechurch (though the minister be at prayer or preaching)
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