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Robin Hood

Note 93 — NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING LIFE.

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“Probably a Moor’s coat; the word Morion is sometimes used to express a Moor.—The morris dance is by some supposed to have been originally derived from Moorish-dance. Black buckram appears to have been much used for the dresses of the ancient mummers. One of the figures in Mr. Tollet’s window is supposed to be a morisco.”

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