The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [390] See book iii. chap. i. sec. v.

[ [391] Lib. i.

[ [392] Ælian, lib. ii. Volaterranus, lib. xxix.

[ [393] Odyssey, by Pope, b. v.

[ [394] No. lvii.

[ [395] "Sive enim saltu, sive cursu, sive luctatu," &c. Vita Sancti Cudbereti, cap. i.

[ [396] "Lusum pilæ celebrem." Stephanides de ludis.

[ [397] "The scholars of each school have their ball or bastion in their hands." Survey of London.

[ [398] Lord Lyttelton, History of Henry the Second, vol. iii. p. 275; and [Dr. Pegge] the translator of Fitzstephen, in 1772.

[ [399] By the word celebrem Fitzstephen might advert to the antiquity of the pastime.