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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 313

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reason why the joculators should not have madethe dog one of their principal brute performers : the sagacity ofthis creature and its docility could not have escaped their notice;and yet the only trick performed by the dog, that occurs in theancient paintings, is simply that of sitting upon his… … 81. Doc.—XIV. Century.• [1800,] CHAP. Vf, OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 247 Neither do I recollect that dogs are included in the list ofanimals formerly belong-ing to the jugglers exhibitions, though,no doubt, they ought to have been; for, in Ben Jonsons playof Bartholmew Fay re, first acted in 1614,…

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