History of the Holy Trinity Guild: At Sleaford, with an Account of Its Miracle Plays, Religious Mysteries, and Shows, as Practiced in the Fifteenth CenturyEdward Bell Drury, 1837 - Всего страниц: 135 |
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Стр. 19 - For round about, the wals yclothed were With goodly arras of great majesty, Woven with gold and silke so close and nere, That the rich metall lurked privily, As faining to be hid from envious eye...
Стр. 112 - Wassal, like a neat sempster and songster ; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribbands, and rosemary, before her ; — -Offering, in a short gown, with a porter's staff in his hand ; a wyth borne before him, and a bason, by his torch-bearer ; — Baby Cocke, drest like a boy, in a fine long coat, biggin, bib, muckender, and a little dagger ; his usher bearing a great cake, with a bean and a pease...
Стр. 20 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Стр. 66 - As now but few large towns existed, no public spectacles or popular amusements were established; and as the sedentary pleasures of domestic life and private society were yet unknown, the fair-time was the season for diversion. In proportion as these...
Стр. 129 - Tom cat of the country, wrapt in swaddling clothes like a child, was exhibited in a magnificent shrine to public admiration. Every knee was bent, every hand strewed flowers or poured incense, and Grimalkin was treated in all respects as the god of the day. But on the festival of Si.
Стр. 111 - ... the most at it, for he is counted the godliest man of all the rest, and most in God's favour, because it is spent upon his church forsooth.
Стр. 109 - Then, every one of these men he investeth with his liveries of greene, yellow, or some other light wanton colour, and, as though they were not gawdie ynouf, they bedecke themselves with scarffes, ribbons, and laces, hanged all over with gold ringes, pretious stones, and other jewels.
Стр. 60 - They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles ; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked men, or rather devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put them to more cruel tortures than the martyrs ever endured. They suffocated some in mud, and suspended others by the feet, or the head, or the thumbs, kindling fires below them. They squeezed the heads of some with knotted cords till they pierced their brains, while...
Стр. 109 - I should say, they bedecke themselves with scarffes, ribbons and laces hanged all over with golde ringes, precious stones and other jewels: this done, they tie about...
Стр. 94 - In Owen's account of the bards, however, preserved in Sir R. Hoare's Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, we read : •' The autumnal fire is still kindled in North Wales, being on the eve of the first day of November, and is attended by many ceremonies ; such as running through the fire and smoke, each casting a stone into the fire, and all running off at the conclusion to escape from the black short-tailed sow ; then supping upon parsnips, nuts, and apples ; catching at an apple suspended...