Assorted photos from the Maryland Renaissance Festival, October 2003. Fair Maid of the West, the human chess game, and Gypsophilia. Also Mannie the Stag dressed for jousting.

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Pierce Templeton oozes contempt
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Charles Brandon rises to the call
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More insults
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Zach Rackham, Ace in the hole
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Patrick Franz
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Punch and Judy
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Baby Sleep
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Da Wa!
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Da Wa?
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Wabu Dabu Da...
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Fair Maid of the West
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A thousand farewells
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My name is Clem
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Roughman
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An oath!
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Disgrace!
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I am hurt to death!
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Ah, sweet Spencer
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Take thou my picture
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Let me take my leave on't
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Had I a heart of flint
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You will restore my picture?
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The return of the ring
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With Roughman...
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Roughman run offstage
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Uh-oh, it's Dash
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Looks like a fight about to happen
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Here come the pirates!
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Look who's fighting!
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Boom!
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Board! Board!
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Watch out, he's getting up
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Dash is back in the thick of it
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Boom! Again!
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Roundhouse!
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What? Another kaboom?
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Snip!
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No more of your honor!
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Now hear your doom!
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The human chess game
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What is she doing?
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Oh, that's what she's doing
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Quarterstaff fight!
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On the ground... again!
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It's Mullet-man vs. Kilt-boy!
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Another one of the same fight
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The child cannot fight. He needs a champion!
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I can take him!
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Fire fight!
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The shield's burnin'!
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Stop, drop, and roll, Nymblewyke!
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Who will fight instead of Romero?
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Pain!
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Zach vs. the mayor
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The queen arrives
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It's Ficklewyck!
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Gotta love that hair!
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The final fight begins
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SMACK!
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PLOP!
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THUD!
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FLIP!
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Gypsophilia
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Alfred and his cello
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Alfred and Claudia
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Claudia and her fiddle
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Pyrophilia
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At the White Hart
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As the sun sets
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Mannie the jouster
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The jousting tournament
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Sir Robert of Schwarzwald or something
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Ker-joust!