Monday, 25 December 2023

Christmas

John Selden, Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, Esq. (London: printed for Joseph White, 1789; 1689), p. 25:

CHRISTMAS succeeds the Saturnalia, the same time, the same number of holy days, then the master waited upon the servant like the Lord of Misrule.
David Teniers the Younger - The King drinks
David Teniers the Younger - The King drinks (c.1650-1660), Prado