 Maygame and morris consisted of the following characters: Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several dancers, variously habited. A hobby-horse and a dragon were afterwards added. In...  Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 53edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 540 pages
...examples of them occurring in many old prints?. In the reigrt of Henry the Eighth the morris dancers were dressed in gilt leather and silver paper, and sometimes in coats of white spangled fustian. They had purses at their girdles, and garters to which bells were attached*1. The... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 528 pages
...examples of them occurring in many old prints'*. In the reign of Henry the Eighth the morris /dancers were dressed in gilt leather and silver paper, and sometimes in coats of white spangled fustian. They had purses at their girdles, and garters to which bells were attached"'. The... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - Antiquities - 1825 - 508 pages
...in some ludicrous manner by the Hobby-horse Saint. 9. The Morris-dancers dressed, temp. Henry VIII. in gilt leather and silver paper, and sometimes in coats of white spangled fustian. They had purses at their girdles, and garters to which bells were attached. These... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...the use of the dragon, who was probably attacked in some ludicrous manner by the hobbyhorse saint. In the reign of Henry VIII. the morris-dancers were...sometimes in coats of white and spangled fustian. They had purses in their girdles, and garters to which bells were attached, varying in number from... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...the use of the dragon, who was probably attacked in some ludicrous manner by the hobbyhorse saint. dressed in gilt leather and silver paper, and sometimes in coats of white and spangled fustian. They had purses in their girdles, and garters to which bells were attached, varying in number from... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 386 pages
...manner by the hobbyhorse saint. . • In the reign of Henry VIII. the moms-dancer* wen ifrfcTri **TJp dressed in gilt leather and silver paper, and sometimes in coats of white and spangled fustian. They had purses in their girdles, and garters to which bells were attached, varying in number from... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 650 pages
...Marian, the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several dancers, variously habited. A hobby-horse and a dragon were afterwards added....in their girdles. (See Donee's Dissertation on the * In rin\t English Morris- Dance, in vol. ii. of h\8 Illustrations of ShoJcspeare.) MORRISON, Robert,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...Marian, the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several dancers, variously habited. A hobby-horse and a dragon were afterwards added....garters, and purses were stuck in their girdles. (See Douce's Dissertation on the ¿indent English Morrw-Dance, in vol. ii. ol^asIUiutraliomiofSluiksjiiim.)... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 656 pages
...Marian, the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several dancers, variously habited. A hobby-horse and a dragon were afterwards added....number of thirty or forty, hung from their garters, and purees were stuck in their girdles. (See Dou.ce's Dissertation on the Ancient English Morris- Dance,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 626 pages
...Marian, the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several dancers, variously habited. A hobby-horse and a dragon were afterwards added....in gilt leather and silver paper, and sometimes in coals of .white and spangled fustian. Bella, to the number of thirty or forty, hung from their garters,... | |
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