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 315
77. A Horse dancing to the Pipe and Tabor. In the often cited Bodleian MS.^ of the fourteenth century, is Mem. sur Anc. Clieval. torn. i. p. 247.3 No. 264. n 2 2 No. 2, B. vii. 244 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK 111. … 78. Another Horse. Here the horse is rearing up and attacking the jociilator, whoopposes him with a small shield and a cudgel. These mockcombats, to which the animals were properly trained, were con-stantly regulated by some kind of musical instrument. The twofollowing performances, also delineated…
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