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

As he went, by a bridge was a wrastling,

And there taryed was he,

And there was all the best yemen,

Of all the west countrey.

A full fayre game there was set up;

A white bull, up ypyght;

A great courser with sadle and brydle,

With gold burnished full bryght:

A payre of gloves, a red gold ringe,

A pipe of wine, good faye: