Identifier: gri_33125012252157 (find matches)
Title: Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions
Year: 1810 (1810s)
Authors: Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802
Subjects: Sports Games
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, for White and Co. (and 7 more)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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notexecuted by the chieftain of the gleemans company, but by some ofhis confederates; and very often this part of the show was performedby females, who were called glee-maidens3 by the Saxons, and tum-bling womenb and balancing women0 in the modern language. It isalmost needless to add, that the ancient usage of introducing femalesfor the performances of these difficult specimens of art and agility, hasbeen successively continued to the present day. III. Dancing, in former times, was closely connected with those a CDaben-slypienb. *> Tomblesteres, and tombesteres, in Chaucer, derived from the Saxon word tomban, to dance, vault,or tumble. The same poet, in the Romance of the Rose, calls them saylours, or dancers, from theLatin word salio. They are also denominated sauters, from saut in French, to leap. Hence, in PiercePloughman, one says, I can neither saylen ne saute. c Tymbestres, players upon the tymbre), which they also balanced occasionally, as we shall finda little farther on.
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