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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 285

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but tliese are much confused,and in some places obliterated, so that they could not have beencopied with any tolerable effect. The dance represented by theengraving- No. 51, from a MS. of the ninth century, in whichthe musician bears a part, I take to be of the burlesque kind,and intended to excite… … 59. Dancing 10 a LIkah. This dance is executed by a female; and probably the per-fection of the dance consisted in approaching and receding- fromthe bear Avith great agility, so as to prevent his seizing uponher, and occasioning any interruption to the performance, whichthe animal, on the other…

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