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  16 11.   "My sleeves are like some Morris dancing fellow" (Rowanld's Knave of Hearts. Quoted in Singer's  Hist. [History] Playing Cards p256)1

   

  15 11.    For 4 [?] and 1/4 of [yarn] for the morris garments  2s 11d [two shillings and eleven pence]   (Church Warden's accounts. Academy 1883. 6 Oct. 231-2)

   

  All's Well  Act 2 scene 2   Clown.  " as fit.....as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday, a morris for May Day"

   

  Heny v  Act 2 Scene 4      Dauphin    "Let us do it with no  more show of fear. No, with  no more than if we heard that England were busied with a Whitsun Morris-dance"

  1  Singer, Samuel Weller. "Researches into the History of Playing Cards, with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood." London 1816

   

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  Beaument & Fletcher. Wild Goose Chase1. Act 3 Sc 1

  Lilia Bianca  "We'll have some sport. Some mad morris or other for our money"

   

  "The torchbearers were apparelled in crimson saltire and grene, like [moreshoes?], their faces blacke; and the king [haylet] in a mummerie"
  (Holinshed Chron. [chronicle] Vol3, p805, col 1  1577-87 3rd ed.)

   

  "Were made morishes, comedies, daunces, interludes"

  (Helyas. Thom's Early Eng. Prose Romances2 3 31 ed. 1858)

   

  "Four reapers who danced a morice"

  (Budgell3. Spectator no. 425. p3)

   

  "Let us daunce a morasse this christmasse"

  (Palsgrave.  Eclaircissement de la langue Anglaise4 p 507 ed 1852)

  1  The Wild Goose Chase, a play by John Fletcher first published in 1621. Later included in the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1679.

  2 Early English Romances, edited by William John Thoms, first published 1858

  3 Eustace Budgell (1686 - 1737), a writer who wrote a number of editions of the Spectator

  4 John Palsgrave printed his L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse in 1530, said to be the first grammar of the French language. It was re-published in 1852 but it is not clear if this is the same text referred to in the note.

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  1589   "All the rucked youth - parting the morris about a maypole"
  (Rick Harvey (Thas Nash?) Plaine Percevale1 p8)

   

  1600  Philemon Holland translates "tripudium" in Livy Bk. 25, 17, p 560 as by "Morice"

   

  1565-73   "Cherionomica saltato. The moricen daunce. Cherionomus. He [?] teacheth on to gesture, or one that daunceth with gesture in a morrise"

  (T. [Thomas] Cooper. Thesaurus  v Thos. [Thomas] Elyot's [Ricksway] 4 A 328)

   

  1458   "Ciphas agents' sculptors curse moreys daunce"

  (Will of Wetenhale, Somerset House)

   

  1575   " A lively moris dance, according to the ancient manner, six dauncers, Mawdmarion [Maid Marion], and the fool

  (Laneham's letter2  Ballad Soc.  ed. p22)

   

  1 Plaine Percevale, the Peace Maker of England, by Richard Harvey, Thomas Nash and John Petheram, published in 1846

  2 A letter was ascribed to Robert Langham (c. 1535-1579/80)

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  1598-9   "I came to the Court (of Maroca) to see a morris dance, and a play of his Elchies"

  (R. [Richard] Hakluyt   Voyages, Vol 2, Part 2, p6. H. 8. 1516. act.

   

  1601   "A commn thing it was away there to fling weapons and darts in the air... to flourish also beforehand; yea and to encounter and meet together in a fight like sword [duels]; and to make good sport in a kinde of morishe dance"
  (Ph. [Philemon] Holland Trans. of Pliny Nat Hist. I 192. ed 16341]

   

  1604  

  " The tabor & the pipe

  The bagpipe & and the crowde

  When oates and rye were ripe

  Began to be allowde.

  But till the harvest all was in

  The Morris Dance did not begin"

  (Friar Bacon's Propherie p11 ed 1844, Shakeshpeare Soc [Society]

  1 Translation of Pliny's Natural History, by Philemon Holland

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  1621   They have so danced & gingled here. They should be morris dancers by their jingle but they have no napkins"

  (Ben Jonson  Gipsies Metamorphosed. Wks 1846 p623)

   

  This is the end of Mr. Manning's notes. Mr Manning induced the Headington men to begin their dancing again in 1899 after a lapse, owing to loss of their fiddler. He did nothin but supply money etc for dresses. In the original side he revivied there were four old dancers performing, Kimber & Howard were the chief people he employed.

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