Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from 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
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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