The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . Scene I.—Like a German clock The Germans were the great clock-makers ofthe sixteenth centuiy. The clock at HamptonCourt, which, accoiding to the inscription, wasset up in 1540, is said to be the first ever madein England. Sir Samuel Meyrick possessed atable-clock of German manufacture, the repre-sentations of costume on which show it to be ofthe time of Elizabeth. It is most probable thatthe German clock, still a repairing; ever out of frame;And never going aright, was of the common kind which we now callDutch clocks. SCENE I
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . Scene I.—Like a German clock The Germans were the great clock-makers ofthe sixteenth centuiy. The clock at HamptonCourt, which, accoiding to the inscription, wasset up in 1540, is said to be the first ever madein England. Sir Samuel Meyrick possessed atable-clock of German manufacture, the repre-sentations of costume on which show it to be ofthe time of Elizabeth. It is most probable thatthe German clock, still a repairing; ever out of frame;And never going aright, was of the common kind which we now callDutch clocks. SCENE I.] LOVE S LABOUK S LOST. 227 * Scene v)ear his colours like a tumblers hoop. The tumbler was a great itinerant performerin the clays of Shakspere, as he is still. His hoop, which was a necessary accompaniment of country fairs his feats, was adorned with ribands. Strutt, inhis Sports, has given us some representationsof the antics which these ancient promoters ofmirth exhibited ; and they differ very slightlyfrom those which still delight the multitude at. In a poem written in verse burlesque bySir William DAvenant, entitled The LongVacation in London, there is a very satisfactoryenumeration of the principal sights which werepresented to the admiring wayfarers of our cityat the period when the Eestoration had givenback to the people some of their ancient amuse-ments, and the councils of the primitive churchwere no longer raked up, as they were by oldPrjTine, to denounce bear-leaders and puppet-showmen as the agents of the evil one,—excom-municated persons who were to be dealt withby the strong arm of the law, civil and eccle-siastical. The passage in DAvenants poem isas follows:— Now vaulter good, and dancing lassOn rope, and man that cries Hey, pass!And tumbler young that needs but head to heel to creep through hoop;And man in chimney hid to dressPuppet that acts our old Queen Bess, And man that whilst the puppets nose expoundeth what they say
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