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 299
third played on a tambourine; thelatter imitated the timbesters above mentioned^ and frequentlyduring the performance of a tune cast up the instrument into theair three or four feet higher than his head, and caught it, as itreturned, upon a sing-le finger; he then whirled it round withan air of… … Balancing.—XIV. Century. This engraving, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library, representsa girl, as the length of the hair seems to indicate, habited likea boy, and kneeling on a large broad board, supported horizon-tally by two men; before her are three swords, the points in-clined to each other,…
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