[Bg-dance] older Bo Peep

[Tim McDaniel]

We sometimes do New Boe Peep.  Gunnvor (alias Gunnora) is submitting
for registration the name "L{i'}tla-B{o'}t p{i'}pa" (the badge has a
line of sheep walking away) and noted:

"...Alice Causton... in 1364 filled up the bottom of a quart measure
with pitch and cunningly sprinkled it with sprigs of rosemary, for
which [crime] she had to 'play bo pepe thorowe a pillery'." [Louis
F. Salzman. English Industries of the Middle Ages.  London: Constable
& Co., Ltd.  1913.  p. 188.
http://ia600307.us.archive.org/3/items/englishindustrie00salzuoft/englishindustrie00salzuoft.pdf#page=204]

To stand in the pillory was "to play bo-peep" as in this mention from
1542: "And evyll bakers, the which doth nat make good breade of whete,
but wyl myngle other corne with whete, or do nat order and seson hit,
gyving good wegght, I would they myghte play bo pepe throwe a
pyllery". [Andrew Boorde. A Dyetary of Helth. ed. F.J. Furnivall.
London: Early English Text Society.  1870.  p. 260 n.
http://books.google.com/books?id=7aoUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA260]

Danel Lincoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com