e fryer and the piper for to
go to Croydon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 0 8

29 Henry 8th. Mem. left in the keeping of the wardens nowe beinge, a
fryers cote of russet, and a kyrtle of a worstyde weltyd with red cloth,
a mouren's cote of buckram, and 4 morres dawnsars cotes of white fustian
spangelyd, and two gryne saten cotes, and a dysardd's cote of cotton,
and 6 payre of garters with bells."

Having given so many items of the Robin Hood games, it will not be out
of place to furnish some account of the Morrice.

_The tabor and pipe strike up a morrice.--A shout within._

A lord, a lord, a lord, who!

ENTER THE MORRICE--_They sing_.

Skip it, and trip it, nimbly, nimbly,
Tickle it, tickle it, lustily,
Strike up the tabor, for the wenches favour,
Tickle it, tickle it, lustily.
Let us be seen on Hygale Greene,
To dance for the honour of Holloway,
Since we are come hither, let's spare for no leather,
To dance for the honour of Holloway.

_Ed._ Well said, my boys, I must have my lord's livery; what is't, a
maypole? troth, 'twere a good body for a courtier's impreza, if it had
but this life--_Frustra storescit_. Hold, cousin, hold.

(_He gives the fool money_.)

_Fool_. Thanks, cousin, when the lord my father's audit comes, we'll
repay you again, your benevolence too, sir.

_Mam._ What! a lord's son become a beggar!

_Fool_. Why not, when beggars are become lord's sons. Come, 'tis but a
trifle.

_Mam._ Oh, sir, many a small make a great.

_Fool_. No, sir, a few great make a many small. Come, my lords, poor and
needy hath no law.

_Ed._ Nor necessity no right. Drum, down with them into the cellar. Rest
content, rest content, one bout more, and then away.

_Fool_. Spoke like a true heart; I kiss thy foot, sweet knight.

(_The Morrice sing and dance, and exeunt_.)

SWAINE.

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THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.

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SITTING IN THE DRUID'S CHAIR.

We detach the following scene from one of Mr. Horace Smith's _Tales of
the_ _Early Ages_. The date is the fifth century, about twenty years
after the final withdrawing of the Romans from Britain. The actors are
Hengist, the Saxon chief, Guinessa, his daughter, betrothed to Oscar, a
young prince, and Gryffhod, a Briton of some distinction, and proprietor
of Caer-Broc, a villa on the Kentish coast, where the parties are
sojournin