Hobby Horse

Dust down the Hobby Horse, set up the maypole, deck the halls with boughs of holly and laurel, make a shedload of sandwiches and pork pies, get those barrels of homebrew from the cellar, and pray perform with me the Ancient Vogue Of Greeting found on a DVD discovered in the long barrow burial of a Saxon king for jerrylentz is among us.

May 24th, 2009 jerrylentz 2009

The Hobby Horse song, as rendered at Padstow, was probably only a variant of verses common elsewhere, but local and topical allusions were freely introduced, and stanzas were addressed to special personages.

The Cornwall Coast

Maid Marian, with the fool and Hobby Horse, were, doubtless, enacted to the jingling of morris-dancers and other profanities.

Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Various

The reference to "Un Ursula Bird" in the second verse of the Day Song has a traditional reference to an old dame who, it is said, led a party of Cornish women in red cloaks, headed by the Hobby Horse, in procession round the cliffs in days gone by and so frightened away a hostile French ship, whose captain mistook the women for soldiers.

Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway Various

The special survival here is of the Hobby Horse, that once played so prominent a part in these boisterous masquerades, but such life as it still enjoys at

The Cornwall Coast

Macmurdo's house in Fitzroy Street in the days of the Century Guild and its paper '_The Hobby Horse_.'

Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions Frank Harris 1893

I have no copy of a Christmas Play in which the Hobby Horse appears.

The Peace Egg and Other tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

Oh my Hobby Horse, and my little Horse: I want you both for my Health.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 February 1795 1795

These are the terrible trials that beset Esben and the Witch tonight at The Hobby Horse, one of the recent boho haunts that's responsible for the joojing-up of Kingsland Road.

The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010

These are the terrible trials that beset Esben and the Witch tonight at The Hobby Horse, one of the recent boho haunts that's responsible for the joojing-up of Kingsland Road.

The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010