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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 276

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he death of John Baptist, andfinding this tumbling- damsel to have been the cause, tho piousauthor treats her with much contempt, as though she had beenone of the dancing girls belonging to a company of jugglers,who in his time, it seems, were not considered as paragons ofvirtue any more than they… … 53. Heropias Tumbling. Herodias is so drawn in a book of Prayers in the KovatLibrary. There is the subjoined representation a century ao**a half earlier.

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