Identifier: gri_33125012252157 (find matches)
Title: Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions
Year: 1810 (1810s)
Authors: Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802
Subjects: Sports Games
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, for White and Co. (and 7 more)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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BOOK IV. OF THE PEOPLE OP ENGLAND. 347 As at hot cockles once I laid me down,And felt the weighty hand of many a clown, Buxoma gave a gentle tap, and IQuick rose, and read, soft mischief in her eye. The Chytrinda,n of the Grecians, says Arbuthnot, 6 is certainly notoar hot cockles, for that was by pinching, not by striking; but the de-scription of the chytrinda, as it is given by an ancient writer, bearslittle or no resemblance to the game of hot cockles, but is similar toanother equally well knownwith us, and called frog in the middle.The chytrinda took place in this manner:—A single player being seatedupon the ground0 was surrounded by his comrades, who pulled or buf-feted him until he could catch one of them; which done, the personcaught took his place, and was buffeted in like manner/ I scarcely needto add, that the frog in the middle, as it is played in the present day,does not admit of any material variation. Upon the thirty-fifth plate the reader will find both the pastimesab

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