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 297
ing all her sex.^—An Inventory of Playhouse Furniture, quoted in the Tatlerunder the article. Materials for Dancing, specifies masques,eastanets, and a ladder of ten rounds. I apprehend the ladder-dance originated from the ancient pastime of walking or dancingupon very high stilts. A specimen of… … [In 1801.] 62. Stilt DanCinc.—XIII. Century.» Harl. Lib. 5931. » Vol. i. No. 42. « 14, B. V. CHAP.V. OP THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 227 XXL—JOCULAR DANCES. In the Roman de la Rose, we read of a dance, the name ofwhich is not recorded, performed by two young women lightlyclothed. The original reads, Qui…
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