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1503 Househ. Accts. Lady Margaret Beaufort (St. John's Cambr. D91.20) 121 Item paid to maister tresorer for a rewarde yeuen vnto vj Spaynerdes that daunsed the morice vj s viij d.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. ix. 112 Thar morisis and syk riot.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 8 All the picked yoouth,..footing the Morris about a May pole.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. ii. 477 Setting vp maypooles daunsing the morris with hobby horses, bringing home the lady of the harvest.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 17 No antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious.

1712 Spectator No. 425. ⁋3 Four Reapers, who danced a Morrice to the Sound of Oaten Pipes.

1780 J. Price Let. 14 Sept. in T. Warton Corr. (1995) iii. 432 Performed in a daunce... Containing the pleasure, paines and kinde entertainment..of William Kemp..in his late Morrice.

1817 R. Southey Wat Tyler i. i Since we were boys together, And play'd at barley-brake, and danced the morris.

1856 G. H. Boker Leonor de Guzman i. ii, in Poems (1857) I. 261 I'll dance the morrice, and you'll ride the horse With an alms-pipkin at your saddle-bow.

1907 C. J. Sharp Morris Bk. 8 The Morris, like that magic beanstalk, seemed to outwit the laws of nature.

1935 Discovery Sept. 265/2 Miss Violet Alford's comparative study of the relation of the Morris to other seasonal dances of Europe and to the Morisca.

1995 Church Times 25 Aug. 6/3 My father had served during the Second World War on a ship where ‘a fellow from Oxford’ had taught some of the hands to dance the morris.