Note 488 — Chapter VII · FESTIVAL PLAY
Reading edition
Chaucer says of the Miller (C. T. prol. 548):
‘At wrastlynge he wolde have alwey the ram’;
and of Sir Thopas (C. T. 13670):
‘Of wrastlynge was ther noon his peer, Ther any ram shal stonde.’
Strutt, 82, figures a wrestling from Royal MS. 2, B. viii, with a cock set on a pole as the prize.