morris-dancer

"Jump, Phil," said Hasket of Norland, applying his fork to Phil's leg as he passed, "you are a better morris-dancer than a poet."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

` ` Friend, if thou best indeed of the church, it were a better deed to show me how I may escape from these men's hands, than to stand ducking and grinning here like a morris-dancer. ''

Ivanhoe 1892

Phil Hazeldine of these parts — He was the best morris-dancer betwixt

Woodstock 1855

It is said that the Squire winks hard at his misdeeds, having an indulgent feeling towards the vagabond, because of his being very expert at all kinds of games, a great shot with the cross-bow, and the best morris-dancer in the country.

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821

"Friend, if thou best indeed of the church, it were a better deed to show me how I may escape from these men's hands, than to stand ducking and grinning here like a morris-dancer."

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

"Friend, if thou be'st indeed of the church, it were a better deed to show me how I may escape from these men's hands, than to stand ducking and grinning here like a morris-dancer."

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

“Friend, if thou be’st indeed of the church, it were a better deed to show me how I may escape from these men’s hands, than to stand ducking and grinning here like a morris-dancer.”

Ivanhoe 2004

"You have made Scholarship and Wisdom put on cap and bells and prance like a morris-dancer.

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

I would thou hadst known one Phil Hazeldine of these parts -- He was the best morris-dancer betwixt Oxford and Burford. "

Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801