The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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... plays , Of merriment , and mirth , and bonfire blaze ; I tell of Christmas - mummings , new year's day , Of twelfth - night king and queen , and children's play ; I tell of Valentine's , and truelove's knots , Of omens , cunning - men ...
... plays , Of merriment , and mirth , and bonfire blaze ; I tell of Christmas - mummings , new year's day , Of twelfth - night king and queen , and children's play ; I tell of Valentine's , and truelove's knots , Of omens , cunning - men ...
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... play , or morality , written by the cele- brated sir David Lindsay . It was enti- tled The Satire of the Three Estates , and was performed at Linlithgow , " before the king , queene , and the whole counsaill , spirituall and temporall ...
... play , or morality , written by the cele- brated sir David Lindsay . It was enti- tled The Satire of the Three Estates , and was performed at Linlithgow , " before the king , queene , and the whole counsaill , spirituall and temporall ...
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... plays , and which appear to have been performed during the may- oralty of John Arneway , who filled that office in ... play And for to seek our hogmenay ; Redd up stocks , redd up stools , Here comes in a pack o ' fools . " Muckle head ...
... plays , and which appear to have been performed during the may- oralty of John Arneway , who filled that office in ... play And for to seek our hogmenay ; Redd up stocks , redd up stools , Here comes in a pack o ' fools . " Muckle head ...
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... Play- stowe , who gradually led him into scenes of fraud , which he afterwards imitated . Playstowe being a handsome man , usually passed for a gentleman , and Stroud for his steward ; at last the former , after many adventures ...
... Play- stowe , who gradually led him into scenes of fraud , which he afterwards imitated . Playstowe being a handsome man , usually passed for a gentleman , and Stroud for his steward ; at last the former , after many adventures ...
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... play - goers know , if the managers had allowed me to sing a song on New- year's night , in imitation of Mr. Liston when he's a playing me . Will you be- lieve it - they burst out a laughing , and would not let me go on the boards ...
... play - goers know , if the managers had allowed me to sing a song on New- year's night , in imitation of Mr. Liston when he's a playing me . Will you be- lieve it - they burst out a laughing , and would not let me go on the boards ...
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