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REIGN OF ELIZABETH.
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to cover tabors ; at the sound of which to set all the shires a dancing. . . . The
court of kings is for stately measures; the city for light heels and nimble footing ;
western men for gambols ; Middlesex men for tricks above ground ; Essex men
for the S^ey ; Lancashire for Sornpipes ; Worcestershire for bagpipes ; but Here-
fordshire for a Morris-dance, puts down not only all Kent, but very near (if one
had line enough to measure it) three quarters of Chi-istendom. Never had Saint
Sepulchre's a truer ring of bells ; never did any silk-weaver keep braver time ;
never could Beverley Fair give money to a more sound taborer ; nor ever had
Robin Hood a more deft Maid Marian."
Full particulars of the Morris-dance and May-games may be found by referring
to Strutt's Sports and Pastimes; to Ritson's Robin Hood ; to an account of a
painted window, appended to part of Henry IV., in Steevens' Shakespeare, the
XV. vol. edition ; to Gifford's Ben Jonson, vol. i., pages 50, 51, 62, vol. iv.,p. 405,
and vol. vii., p. 397 ; to The British Bibliographer, vol. iv., p. 326 ; Brand's
Popular Antiquities; Deuce's Illustrations of Shakespeare; and Dr. Drake's
Shakespeare and his Times, vol. i., &c., &c.
BARLEY-BREAK.
From Lady Neville's Virginal Book, which was transcribed in 1591.
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