Who lists may in their mumming see Traces of ancient mystery; White shirts supplied the masquerade, And smutted cheeks the visors made; But oh!
Some youths will now a mumming go, Some others play at Rowland-ho And twenty other gambols mo, Because they will be merry.
The subject of mumming we have elsewhere treated at some length; but this curious variety of the practice, and the manner in which it seems to connect the subject with the ceremonies of the Greeks, we could not allow ourselves wholly to omit.
It is scarcely to be considered that the compound figures were influenced by the prevalence of mumming in the periods of the various carvings.
There are yet existing some slight traces of the reputation which obscure villages had in their own vicinity for their plays, of which Christmas mumming contains the last tattered relic.
Even Christmas mummingwas treated as an objectionable practice in London; as early as 1370 we find the first of a series of Christmastide proclamations "that no one shall go in the streets of the city, or suburbs thereof, with visor or mask .
Much of this mumming was not only pagan in its origin but still in its essence definitely anti-ecclesiastical.
Some youths will now a mumming go, Some others play at Rowland-ho, And twenty other gameboys mo, Because they will be merry.
Who lists may in their mumming see Traces of ancient mystery.
All the characters take part in the "Mumming Round.
The Mumming Chorus, "And a mummingwe will go," &c.
And a mummingwe will go, will go, And a mumming we will go, With a bright cockade in all our hats, we'll go with a gallant show.
They recall to me that the piece properly opens with a "mumming round," different to the one I have given, that one belonging to the end.
The first Mumming Song rehearses each character and his exploits.
But, as a rough rule, it is one of the conveniences of mumming play, that the finery may be according to the taste and the resources of the company.
THE FOOL(Motley: with a bauble long enough to put over his shoulder and be held by the one behind in the mumming circle).
As the latter, it appears frequently to have formed part of a mumming or disguising, and was early associated with the morris-dance of May-day or Christmas.
She had to go back to Huddy's, to the mumming booth and the innyard.
She had to begin somewhere, and to play at the New Theatre was not like playing in an inn yard or mumming booth.
Mumming Play, as performed at Newbold, a village near Rugby, is given.
From Salii to Templars is not after all so 'far a cry' as from the glittering golden-armed Maruts, and the youthful leaping Kouretes, to the grotesque tatterdemalion personages of the Christmas Mumming Play.
They do this often even when performing a later form of the Mumming Play.
The close connection between the English Sword Dance, and the Mumming Play, is indicated by the fact that the chief character in these plays is, generally speaking, Saint George.
Speaking of the Mumming Plays, the writer says: "The one point in which there is no variation is that--the character is killed and brought to life again.
These English forms may be divided into three related groups, the Sword Dance, the Morris Dance, and the Mumming Play.
The Morris Dances differ somewhat from the Sword, and Mumming Dances.
Your company is like to be increased, sir; some neighbours, that heard your fiddles, are come a mumming to you.
The enterprising lady followed the mumming company through the gate in the white paling, and stood before the open porch.
Eustacia then proceeded in her delivery, striking the sword against the staff or lance at the minatory phrases, in the orthodox mumming manner, and strutting up and down.
There was a slight hoarfrost that night, and the moon, though not more than half full, threw a spirited and enticing brightness upon the fantastic figures of the mumming band, whose plumes and ribbons rustled in their walk like autumn leaves.
For mummers and mumming Eustacia had the greatest contempt.
I can get boy's clothes--at least all that would be wanted besides themumming dress.
There was a slight hoar-frost that night, and the moon, though not more than half full, threw a spirited and enticing brightness upon the fantastic figures of the mumming band, whose plumes and ribbons rustled in their walk like autumn leaves.
Sir Halbert Glendinning, "think you this mumming and masking has not more of Popery in it than have these stone walls?
The old English disport of mumming at Christmas is of great antiquity--so great that its origin is lost.
The same readiness was shown in her adaptation of the various versions of the Mumming Play, or The Peace Egg.
And, moreover, how I am to convey her out of this crowd, or through the streets, in such a mumming habit may be well made a question.
English Wat, attend me alone, and the rest of you end your revelry, and doff your mumming habits.
Indeed, the mumminghitherto had been more in dress than manners, so little restraint had their outward disguise occasioned, or their behaviour been altered thereby.
I know well there's mumming and foolery a-going on yonder; and I suppose ye join the merry-making, as they call it?
For here, one could only think of the moping and mumming herd of monks, who were certainly not worth remembering, while the fame of Paolo Sarpi, and the good which he did, refused to be localized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mumming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
