In England, the Lord of Misrule ? known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots ? was an officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying, in the pagan tradition of Saturnalia.
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Lord of misrule englan 欢宴之王英格兰
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There used to be a swarm of these small apparitions , in holiday time ; and we called them children of the lord of misrule 那时候,每逢节日,常有成群的这种小精灵,我们都把他们叫作司戏者的孩子。