The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)

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If wealth, sir knight, perchance be thine, In tournaments you're bound to shine Refuse - and all the world will swear You are not worth a rotten pear.

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