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 473
Here mc see a rope apparently made fast at both ends, anda man laying hold of it with his teeth, by which he seemsto support himself. If this be the meaning of the delineator,the trick may properly be classed with those that were exhibitedby the minstrels and the joculators. … 135.
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