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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BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 209 stance, two oranges and two forks; and the performer, by way of con-clusion, caught the oranges upon the forks. In the Romance of the Rose, we read of Tymbesteres, or balance-mistresses, who, according to the description there given, played uponthe tymbres, or timbrels, and, occasionally tossing them into the air,caught them again upon one finger. The passage translated by Chau-cer, stands thus: There was manye a tymbestere——Couthe her crafte full parfytly :The tymbres up full subtellyThey cast, and hent full ofteUpon a fynger fayre and softe,That they fayled never mo.c Towards the close of last summer, I saw three itinerant musicians pa-rading the streets of London; one of them turned the winch of an organwhich he carried at his back, another blew a reed-pipe, and the thirdplayed on a tambourine; the latter imitated the timbesters above men-tioned, and frequently during the performance of a tune cast up theinstrument into the air three or f

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