"Morrice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the violent, which has been the tragedy of woman from the beginning. Costello led her among the dancers, and they were soon drawn into the rhythm of the Pavane, that stately dance which, with the Saraband, the Gallead, and the Morrice dances, had driven out, among all but the most Irish of the gentry, the quicker rhythms of the verse-interwoven, pantomimic dances of earlier days; and while they danced there came over them the unutterable melancholy, the weariness with the ...
— The Secret Rose • W. B. Yeats
... court. 'The Kynge,' it seems, 'was pleased by the bels and sweet dauncing.' Certain of his courtiers 'did presentlie daunce so in open playces.' No one with any knowledge of the English nature will be surprised to hear that the cits soon copied the courtiers. But 'the Morrice was not for longe practysed in the cittie. It went to countrie playces.' London, apparently, even in those days, did not breed joy in life. The Morris sought and found its proper home in the fields and by the wayside. Happy carles danced it to the glory of God, even as ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm
... with a feather was lapt all in leather, His boastings were all in vain; He had such a chance, with a new morrice dance, He ...
— Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series • Various |
