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Padstow has been associated from immemorial times with a special celebration of the May-Day festival, immediately deriving from the old folk-plays and mummings that were once universal.
"For a right good fellow, who I am sure will comply with his friend's request, especially when he finds there is no sort of degradation in it," replied Sherborne. "Why, I shall wear Sir Richard's cloth, and so will several others of our friends. There will be rare doings at Hoghton masquings, mummings, and all sorts of revels, besides hunting, shooting, racing, wrestling, and the devil knows what.
Since you were at such mummings, you might, if you would, have at least saved the credit of my household, by dressing him up as a jackanapes bring him hither, fellows!" Adam Woodcock was too honest and downright, to permit blame to light upon the youth, when it was undeserved. "And what hast thou to do with Saint Martin?"
'Heigh now, Sirs, said Harry, 'have we not wars enough toward without these mummings of vanity? 'This is no show, my Lord King, returned the mayor, abashed. 'This is deadly earnest. These are two honourable gentlemen of Yorkshire, who are come hither to fight out their quarrel before your Grace.
Down in Somersetshire, among its orchards, nutteries, and blackberry thickets, poor little Mistress Fiddy was drooping, as girls would pine sometimes, even in the days of Will Shakspeare, ere cloth-yard shafts were abolished from merry England, when there were still mayings among the hyacinths, and milkmaids' dances under the thorns, and mummings when the snow fell.
The country was growing rich and prosperous. The annalists tell us of little save tournaments and mummings, and the setting up of seven new earldoms to remedy the gaps which death and forfeiture had made in the higher circle of the baronage.
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