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 embroidered jerkin; and thus he is marching thither like the forman of a morris."

Again, in Act iv. of The Knight of the Burning Pestle: "Let Ralph come out on May-day in the morning, and speak upon a conduit, with all his scarfs about him, and his feathers, and his rings, and his knacks;" and Ralph says in his declamation:—

The most complete and accurate description of the ancient morris-dance, though written in later times, is from the pen of the antiquarian Strutt,