Là où il ot mainte risée.’
Cf. p. 67; also the similar list in Wace, Brut, 10823, and Piers Plowman, Passus xvi. 205:
‘Ich can nat tabre ne trompe · ne telle faire gestes,
Farten, ne fithelen · at festes, ne harpen,
Iapen ne iogelen · ne gentelliche pipe,
Nother sailen ne sautrien · ne singe with the giterne.’
[275] Gautier, ii. 63; Strutt, 207. L. T. Smith, Derby Accounts (Camden Soc.), 109, records a payment by Henry of Bolingbroke when in Prussia in 1390-1 ‘cuidam tumblere facienti ministralciam suam.’ See miniatures of tumblers (Strutt, 211, 212), stilt-dancing (ibid. 226), hoop-vaulting (ibid. 229), balancing (ibid. 232-4), a contortionist (ibid. 235).
[276] Annales Corbeienses, s. a. 1135 (Leibnitz, Rer. Brunsv. Script. ii. 307) ‘funambulus inter lusus suos in terram deiectus.’
[277] Gautier, ii. 64, quotes Annales Basilienses, s. a. 1276 ‘Basileam quidam corpore debilis venit, qui funem protensum de campanili maioris ecclesiae ad domum cantoris manibus et pedibus descendebat’; for later English examples cf. ch. xxiv.
[278] Strutt, 172, 176, 209; Jusserand, i. 214, and E. W. L. 23.