[209:B] Mr. Strutt, in a quotation from an old MS. legend of St. John the Baptist, preserved in Dugdale's Warwickshire, tells us,—"In the beginning of holi churche, it was so that the pepul cam to the chirche with candellys brinnyng, and wold wake and comme with Light toward the chirche in their devocions, and after they fell to lecherie and songs, daunces, harping, piping, and also to glotony and sinne, &c."—Sports and Pastimes, p. 322.
"It appears," says Mr. Brand, "that in antient times the parishioners brought rushes at the Feast of Dedication, wherewith to strew the Church, and from that circumstance the Festivity itself has obtained the name of Rush-bearing, which occurs for a Country-Wake in a Glossary to the Lancashire dialect."—Brand ap. Ellis, vol. i. p. 436.
[210:A] Hilman's Tusser, p. 81.
[211:A] Bourne's Antiquit. Vulg. p. 330.
[211:B] Triumph of Pleasure, p. 23.
[211:C] Chalmers's Poets, vol. iv. p. 378. Poly-Olbion, Song xxvii.
[212:A] Hesperides, p. 300, 301.
[212:B] In Shakspeare's time the business of the milliner was transacted by men.
[212:C] Caddisses,—a kind of narrow worsted galloon.
[212:D] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. ix. p. 345. 347, 348.