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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 (1830)

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 247

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it; the other dancing, in an attitude ex-ceedingly ludicrous. This performance takes place upon aneminence resembling a stage made with earth; and in the ori-ginal a vast concourse are standing round it in a semicircle asspectators of the sport, but they are so exceedingly ill drawn,and withal so… … 52. Anglo-Saxon Harper and Hoppestere.—X. Century. CHAP. III. OP THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 177 Here we see a youth playing upon a harp with only fourstrings, and apparently singing at the same time, while an elderlyman is performing the part of a buffoon or posture master, holdingup one of his legs,…

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