PORTHLEVEN MORRIS MEN
DRAGGING THE MORRIS, KICKING & SCREAMING INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
Philip Stubbes, an Elizabethan Puritan, condemned the frivolities of morris dancing:
"...its performer wear liveries of green, yellow or some other light wanton colour.......and as though not gawdy enough.........they bedecke them-selves with scarffes, ribbons, and laces. This done they tie about either leg 20 or 40 bells with rich handkerchiefs in their hands.......
…....they strike up the Devils Dance withal, then march these heathen company towards the church and churchyard, their pipers piping, drummers thundering, their stumps dancing, their bells jingling, their handkerchiefs swinging about their heads like madmen…..."
Philip Stubbes, Anatomie of Abuses, 1583
I NEVER DID LIKE PURITANS!!!!
MINE'S A PINT, THANKYOU
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"Porthleven Morris Men..... Dragging the Morris, Kicking and Screaming into the 21st century" Albert Einstein
"Surely these Morris Dancers are up there with the best; the Bee's Knees; the Dog's Bollocks; the Anteater's Asshole and other zoological body parts." Charles Darwin
"If I had them on 'X Factor' I would give myself a Brazilian." Simon Cowell
"Why don't they go on X Factor" Louis Walsh
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"So do I" George W. Bush
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