[ [724] Richer dances with great facility without any balance, and walks down the rope into the pit, and ascends again. He also adds a variety of other performances.
[ [725] An account of this festival may be found in the account of Christmas Games, book iv. chap. iii. sect. 9.
[ [726] No. 964.
[ [727] [In the drawing the musicians face the dancers: they are placed below them in the above engraving to suit the present page.]
[ [728] [Mr. Douce is of opinion, that the dance set forth above by Mr. Strutt, from the Bodleian MS., did not form a part of the festival of fools.]
[ [729] History of Music, vol. iv. p. 388.
[ [730] Archæologia, vol. i. p. 15. See also the Witch of Edmonton, a tragi-comedy by William Rowley, printed in 1658.
[ [731] See Johnson's Dictionary, word Morris-dance.
[ [732] Garrick's Collection of Old Plays, 1 vol. 18mo.