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 281
s; but these are much confused,and in some places obliterated, so that they could not have beencopied with any tolerable effects The dance represented by theengraving No. 51, from a MS. of the ninth century,^ in whichthe musician bears a part, I take to be of the burlesque kind,and intended to… … 59. Dancing to a Bear. This dance is executed by a female; and probably the per-fection of the dance consisted in approaching and receding fromthe bear with great agility, so as to prevent his seizing uponher, and occasioning any interruption to the performance, whichthe animal, on the other hand,…
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