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 293
g all her sex.2—An Inventory of Playhouse Furniture, quoted in the Tatler^under the article, Materials for Dancing, specifies masques,castanets, and a ladder of ten rounds. I apprehend the ladder-dance originated from the ancient pastime of walking or dancmgupon very high stilts. A specimen of such… … [In 1801-] 62. Stilt Dancing,—XIII. Centurv.s Harl. Lib. 5931. ^ Vol. i. No. 42. ♦ 14, B. \ CHAP.V. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLi-ND. 227 XXL—JOCULAR DANCES. In the Roman de la Rose, we read of a dance, the name ofwhich is not recorded, performed by two young women lightlyclothed. The original reads, Qui…
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