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The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 243

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t; the other dancing, in an attitude ex-ceedingly ludicrous. This performance takes place upon aneminence resembling- a stage made with earth; and in the ori-ginal a vast concourse are standing round it in a semicircle asspectators of the sport, but they are so exceedingly ill drawn,and withal so… … I 62. Anglo-Saxon Harper and Hoppestere.—X. Centirv. CHAP. IlT. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 177 Here we see a youth playing- upon a Iiarp with only fourstrings, and apparently singing at the same time, while an elderlyman is performing the part of a buffoon or posture master, holdingup one of his…

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