Their idle houres, I meane all houres beside
Their houres to eate, to drinke, drab, sleepe, and ride,
They spend at shove-boord, or at pennie-pricke.
—Scots’ Philomythie, 1616.
Halliwell gives these references in his Dictionary; Addy, Sheffield Glossary, describes it as above; adding, “An old game once played by people of fashion.”
See “[Penny Cast].”
Penny Stanes
See “[Penny Cast].”
Phœbe
The name of a dance mentioned in an old nursery rhyme. A correspondent gave Halliwell the following lines of a very old song, the only ones he recollected:—
Cannot you dance the Phœbe?
Don’t you see what pains I take;
Don’t you see how my shoulders shake?
Cannot you dance the Phœbe?