(From the Stick of Tuesday.)
... drunk: thus there were bride-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, leet-aks, Midsummer-ales, Scot-ales, and several more. Stool-ball and barley-break were, alao, Whitsun sporta: in “ancient tymes.” too, Whitsun plays were acted: at Chester, they were twentyfive ...