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cavaliers," who dressed themselves
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could he do but gasp, seeing that
** she stared at him with mascu-
line assurance, and cocked her hat
full in his face !" At Bury, in
Suffolk, there lived a still more
adventurous little group of sports-
women, but Addison (I regret to
say) never encountered them.
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eenth centuries were to the great
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far freer. Indeed, their freedom
was excessive, as may be gathered
from the fact that they could exer-
cise their tempers and their arms
by scourging their female slaves
to death. This is horrible, no
doubt ; but the tongues of some
modern housewives scourge not
much less cruelly than the Anglo-
Saxon thongs. So I pass on to
the pleasant fact that every village
had then a public playground
where the two sexes sported to-
gether on feast days ; and we are
told that the boys, after wrestling,
jumping, and throwing the stone,
'* mutually applauded one another
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for garlands, their masters and
mistresses being the judges; and
the prizes hung all day " athwart
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there to watch the games, and
probably to give away the cakes.
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the most interesting took place on
the Tuesday following the second
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of the thirteenth century. Even
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old, time-honoured. Sometimes
it ^%as called Binding Tuesday,
because the men and women
bound one another, **and espe-
cially the women the men," says
Sir Henry Spelman, who probably
saw some of the first performances
of Shakespeare's plays. In Hamp-
shire, and perhaps in other coun-
ties, the men hocked the women
on Monday, while on the great
day, the Tuesday, it was the
women who bound the men. This
is a sure sign that civilisation was
progressing, that popular opinion
was in favour of a ceremonious
deference shown to the fair bel-
ligerent sex in general. We are
all too apt to regard chivalry as
an aristocratic agency which never
softened and refined the manners
of the working classes. Let us
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every man whom they could catch ;
and if the captives wished to regain
their liberty then they had to give
something to a "pious charity."
It is thought that this festival
commemorated the death of Har-
dicanute, which severed the con-
nection between the crowns of
England and Denmark. The
binding part of the ceremony
may have reminded the English
that they had been slaves under
the Danes ; and perhaps a prisoner,
when paying his ransom in a gift
of money to a pious Buy Ginseng Root charity, re-
turned thanks to Heaven for the
recovered freedom of his race.
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great mimic fight between two
bands of amateur players, one re-
presenting the Danes, the other
the Saxons, and, thanks to their
women folk, the Saxons led their
foes captive. " This play," we
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Queen Elizabeth, who laughed
much at the pageant, and be-
stowed upon the performers two
bucks and five marks of money."
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stirring music and beautiful
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pageants. And has it ever oc-
curred to you, that if Puritanism
had appeared and grown strong
in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, the whole main current
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