Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
"Bull Guysering as I was taught by my/our fathers and Grandfathers sixty years ago, and traced back by a friend to the sixteen hundreds at least. Then they were know as The house to house players, and were performed as so.
It was customary to turn our coats inside out, black our faces with soot from up the chimney. Turn our caps back to front. Borrow Mams copper stick for a club, and also Mams dripping tin, and use sticks for the swords. Manys the time weve had black earholes at school next day. Bull Guys was an heritage and must kept on record. any moneys acquired shared equally. Les Clarke (Selston)"