Related article: common in the great human
drama ? Shakespeare, for ex-
ample, would never have been
the greatest of all playwrights. It
is well for us all that the public
for which he wrote had not yet
estranged itself from that old
fondness foi: spectacular cere-
monies which Catholicism had
fostered during so many centuries.
We who are Protestants should
remember this ; and let Buy Korean Red Ginseng us never
forget that Shakespeare did for Ginseng Tablets Benefits
the world's drama precisely what
the noble Catholic painters
achieved for the world V art ; for
he created Price Of Wild Ginseng and made popular
hitherto undreamed-of types of
glorious womanhood. It was thus
that chivalry was exalted into an
art for ever new and beautiful,
winning, ennobling ; and great
was the Buy Ginseng Seeds disgust and horror of
such Elizabethan puritans as
Gosson and Stubbs !
I have made these remarks only
because we are all too apt to
forget that a deep meaning under-
lies every historic account of the
street-ceremonies by which our
mediaeval ancestors set the great-
est store. This delight was
indeed, the acorn out of which
the oak-tree of Shakespeare's
genius was to grow. I now add
that women took part in every
pageant, and it is curious to note
how the Anglo-Saxon spirit of
rude comedy, Where To Buy Wisconsin Ginseng of burlesque, gave
a quaint character to even the
most impressive pageantries. For
example, when the whole popu-
lation of London turned out to
honour Henry the Fifth after his
ever-memorable victory at Agin-
court, it was not an official of
high rank who at the entrance of
London Bridge recited the ode of
welcome and thanksgiving, — it
was ** a huge giant *' ; and while
the populace gazed at a lion and
an antelope placed on the top of
one temporary tower, a choir of
angels cleared its throat on the
summit of another hard by, and
then sang '* Blessed is he that
Cometh in the name of the Lord.*'
Elsewhere, Where Can I Buy Siberian Ginseng standing on a tower
at Cornhill, the patriarchs of the
City not only **sang unto the
Lord a new song," but threw live
birds at their king, " that flew
thick ** about his head. Yes, it
was a popular holiday indeed.
At Cheapside the conduits ran
wine, instead of water, and more
angels on towers " showered down
gold pieces, or imitations of the
same."
Such pageants rejoiced every
heart **in the brave days of old."
Now and then, however, they led
to things more distressing than
we moderns can describe. We
learn, for instance, from Mr.
Ditchfield's charming *' Story of
our English Towns," that in
Chester, on the eve of the festival
of John the Baptist, there was
long a famous pageant known as
** the setting of the watch," in
which the chief actors were a
camel, an ass, a dromedary, Buy Wisconsin Ginseng a
dragon, a unicorn, four paste-
board giants, and sixteen living,
naked little boys, winged as Cupids.
Now these little boys were dear
to the whole city. Year after
year the old Rows were crowded
with their admirers till a day
came when they so shocked the
modesty of one mayor that he
** whipped them away." Yes,
«* and he slew the dragon with
the skill of a St. George, and
broke the pasteboard giants."
Then the women rebelled, and
the men fought the battle, Ginseng 250 Mg and in
due course the historic players
were restored. Once more the
naked bodies of the sixteen little
Cupids Ginseng 1000 Mg either shone in the sun,
or else were washed by the
rain Buy Siberian Ginseng ; and great care was taken
1899.]
ENGLISHWOMEN AND THEIR SPORTS AND GAMES.
103
to preserve the giants from
enemies more numerous than
puritanic mayors would ever
be. Those enemies were rats,
so that a shilling's worth of ar-
senic was mixed with the paste
when the giants were manu-
factured.
We pass on now to the games of
club-ball and stool-ball, games
dear to the girls of England.
Club-ball was played in two ways,
and both were right. A manu-
script in the Bodleian Library,
dated 1344, gives a picture re-
presenting a girl in the act of
throwing the ball to a lad, whose
bat is ready to send it flying
among some other players, who
stand waiting Wild Ginseng Price to catch the devious
thing. Here, doubtless, we have
the origin of cricket. In earlier
times only two players seem to
have taken part in this game, for
only two are seen in a manuscript
of Henry III.*s reign, where the
batswoman holds the ball, Where To Buy Siberian Ginseng while
the Ginseng 200 Mg other player, like American Ginseng Price a too eager
fielder at point or in the slips,
bends forward in a ludicrous posi-
tion, holding out his hands. How
this game was won does not ap-
pear. Perhaps the girl always
had her way! The secrets of
stool-ball seem less obscure. In
its simplest form, apparently, a
girl sat on a stool and tried to
prevent another player from hit-
ting it with a ball. But the sport
developed into a kind of rounders.
A number of stools, set at a given
distance from each other were
placed in a great circle round
two players, a batsman and a
bowler ; the batting side sat on
the stools, and thus there was
some difficulty in starting to run
when the ball was hit. D'Urfey
sang about this pastime, and
perhaps no friend of temperance
principles would recite the fol-
lowing verse at a village con-
cert : —
** Down in a vaJe on a summer's day,
All the lads and the lassies meet to be
merry,
A match at kisses and stool-ball to play.
And for cakes and ale, and cider and
perry.
Come all, great, small, short, tall, away
to stool-ball ! "
Archery.
The games which I have just
described were for children only,
and Where To Buy Korean Red Ginseng from the time of Edward III.
every young man of sixteen had
to give them up, so that he might
qualify himself at the archery
butts for the honour of carrying
twelve French lives in his quiver.
The other sex, too, at least as
early Ginseng Price Per Pound as the fourteenth century,
enjoyed the fine exercise of the
bow, to the injury of rabbits,
small birds, and the royal deer.
Foremost among the Di Vernons
of a later time stands Queen
Elizabeth, whom we know as an
excellent archer and a plucky
rider in the chase. Then one
may call special attention to the
Lady Catherine Howard, Lord
Berkeley's first wife, who was
** see good an archer Red Ginseng Price Price Of Ginseng Per Pound at butts with
the long bow, as Korean Ginseng 100 Mg her side by her Where To Buy Ginseng Seeds
was never the weaker." As a
rule, also, she kept ** a cast or
two of merlins, which sometimes