Excerpt from Popular Antiquities of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Comprising Notices of the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts, Customs, Superstitions and Amusements Past and Present; Customs and Ceremonies Hall, in his Triumphs of Rome, alludes as follows to thefe convivial enter tainments: What fhould I {peak of our merry Wakes and May Games and Chrif'cmafs Triumphs, which you have once feen here and may fee (till in thol'e under the Roman dition: in all which put together, you may well fay no Greek can be merrier than they. Ofpleafure, p. 23. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.