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 312
dancers, tale-tellers, jugglers,and pantomimical 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 the… … 74. A TUMBLING Ape.* Essaia Hist, sur Pane, vol. ii. p. 178. No. 264. 242 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK III. Leaping or tumbling- over a chain or cord beld by the juggler,as we here see it depicted, was a trick well received at Bartlio.lomew fair in the time of Ben Jonson; and in the induction,…
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