[685] Brand-Ellis, i. 142; Douce, 576; Burton, 95; Gutch, Robin Hood, i. 301; Drake, 76.
[686] Burton, 117; Warner, Albion’s England, v. 25 ‘At Paske begun our Morrise, and ere Penticost our May.’ The morris was familiar in the revels of Christmas. Laneham, 23, describes at the Bride-ale shown before Elizabeth at Kenilworth ‘a lively morrisdauns, according too the auncient manner: six daunserz, Mawdmarion, and the fool.’
[687] A good engraving of the window is in Variorum Shakespeare, xvi. 419, and small reproductions in Brand, i. 145; Burton, 103; Gutch, i. 349; Mr. Tollet’s own account of the window, printed in the Variorum, loc. cit., is interesting, but too ingenious. He dates the window in the reign of Henry VIII; Douce, 585, a better authority, ascribes it to that of Edward IV.
[688] Ben Jonson, The Gipsies Metamorphosed (ed. Cunningham, iii. 151):
‘Clod. They should be morris-dancers by their gingle, but they have no napkins.
‘Cockrel. No, nor a hobby-horse.
‘Clod. Oh, he’s often forgotten, that’s no rule; but there is no Maid Marian nor Friar amongst them, which is the surer mark.
‘Cockrel. Nor a fool that I see.’
[689] The lady, the fool, the hobby-horse are all in Tollet’s window, and in a seventeenth-century printing by Vinkenboom from Richmond palace, engraved by Douce, 598; Burton, 105. Cf. the last note and other passages quoted by Douce, Brand, and Burton. In Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 5, 125, a morris of six men and six women is thus presented by Gerrold, the schoolmaster:
‘I first appear ...