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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 317

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reason why the joculators should not have madethe dog one of their principal brute performers : the sagacity ofthis creature and its docility could not have escaped their notice;and yet the only trick performed by the dog, that occurs in theancient paintings, is simply that of sitting- upon his… … 81. Doc—XIV. Century.* [1800.] ^iit3f CHAP. VI. OP THE PEOPLE OP ENGLAND. 247 Neither do I recollect that dogs are included in the list ofanimals formerly belongingto the jugglers exhibitions, though,no doubt, they ought to have been; for, in Ben Jonsons playof Bartholmew Fayre, first acted in…

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