. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners : with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare ; on the collection of popular tales entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris dance. ,hUsh,-d. hv T. Tcaa. Cheapi-ldc. Scpl . 7A\..7. ON THE CLOWNS AND FOOLS. 5l7 fair maid of the exchange. Similar figures of the costume offools in the time of James I., or Charles I., may be seen inThe life of Will Summers, compiled long after his time. and 5 are from La grant danse Macabre, printed at Troyeswithout date, but about the year 1500, in folio, a book of un-. common ra
. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners : with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare ; on the collection of popular tales entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris dance. ,hUsh,-d. hv T. Tcaa. Cheapi-ldc. Scpl . 7A\..7. ON THE CLOWNS AND FOOLS. 5l7 fair maid of the exchange. Similar figures of the costume offools in the time of James I., or Charles I., may be seen inThe life of Will Summers, compiled long after his time. and 5 are from La grant danse Macabre, printed at Troyeswithout date, but about the year 1500, in folio, a book of un-. common rarity and curiosity. Fig. 6 is from the Stidtarumvirginum scaphce seu naviculce of Badius Ascensius, anotherwork of much rarity, and far exceeding that of the ship offools by Sebastian Brandt. In all the editions of the latter,a great variety of the fools of the fifteenthcentury will befound. Fig. 7 is from a French translation of St. Augustineon the city of God, printed at Abbeville 1486. It exemplifiesthe use of the tabor and pipe by fools; a practice that seemsto have been revived by Tarlton in the time of Elizabeth. 518 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKSPEARE. Figures 3, 4, and 6, have been introduced to show the cos-tume of female fools. Amon^ others of this kind that mightdeserve notice is a very interesting one in the picture, byHolbeinj of Henry the Eighths family already mentioned. 7
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