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 308
pe-dancers, tale-tellers, jugglers,and pautomimical performers. They call those, says he,jugglers, who play upon the vielle, and teach apes, bears,and perhaps we may add, dogs, to dance. ^ Apes and monkeys seem always to have been favourite actorsin the joculators troop of animals. A specimen of… … 74. A TUMBLING ApeEssais Hist, sur Paris, vol. ii. p. 178, » Nd. 2{>4 242 * SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK III. Leaping or tumbling over a chain or cord held by the jugg-ler,as Me here see it depicted, was a trick well received at Bartho-lomew fair in the time of Ben Jonson; and in the induction,…
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