At Mr. Barnes' booth between the Crown-Tavern and the Hospital-Gate, in the Rounds over-against the Cross Daggers in West-Smith-Field where you will see the English flag hang out on the top of the booth, during the time of Bartholomew-Fair, is to be seen the famous rope-dancers in Europe, being four companies joyn'd in one, viz. the English, High-German, French and Morocco. Barnes, Mr. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08428 of text R172270 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B864A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B08428 Wing B864A ESTC R172270 64550937 ocm 64550937 184353 2240886152

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08428) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184353) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2858:31) At Mr. Barnes' booth between the Crown-Tavern and the Hospital-Gate, in the Rounds over-against the Cross Daggers in West-Smith-Field where you will see the English flag hang out on the top of the booth, during the time of Bartholomew-Fair, is to be seen the famous rope-dancers in Europe, being four companies joyn'd in one, viz. the English, High-German, French and Morocco. Barnes, Mr. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) s.n., [London : 1700] Title taken from first six lines of text. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng Barnes, -- Mr. Bartholomew Fair -- Early works to 1800. Acrobats -- England -- Early works to 1800. Acrobatics -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England dy 17th century. eebo At Mr. Barnes's booth, between the Crown-Tavern and the Hospital-Gate, in the Rounds over-against the Cross Daggers in West-smith-field, where you wil [no entry] 1700 1 398 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2012-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-04 Sampled and proofread 2013-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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At Mr. Barnes's Booth , between the Crown-Tavern and the Hospital-Gate , in the Rounds over-against the Cross Daggers in West-smithfield , where you will see the English Flag hang out on the top of the Booth , during the time of Bartholomew-Fair , is to be seen the Famous Rope-Dancers in Europe , being Four Companies joyn'd in One , viz. the English , High-German , French and Morocco .

By these incomparable Companies ( all joyn'd in one Booth ) will be presented that Variety of Agility of Body , as Dancing , Tumbling , Vaulting and Walking the Slack Rope , the like was never seen since the Age of Man .

1. You will see the Morocco Woman and her Company , who Vaults upon the High Rope to admiration .

2. You will see the French Company , who perform things too tedious here to relate .

3. You will see the two Famous High-German Children , who are the Wonder of the World of their Sex , performing such things the like was never seen before .

4. You will see the English Company , Mr. Appleby and Mr. Barnes , who are the two Only Famous Men in the whole World , for Tumbling and Rope-dancing ; where Mr. Barnes dances with a Child standing on his Shoulders , and two at his Feet , with Rolls , Baskets , Boots , Dutch-Scates , &c. and dances a Jig upon the Rope with such Variety of Steps , that few or no Dancing-Masters in England exceed him on the Ground , keeping exact time to the Musick . He likewise walks the Slack-Rope , no bigger than a Penny-Cord , and swings himself several Yards distance , standing upright , with the Pole in his hand . Also you will see such Tumbling perform'd by the English Company , as throwing thro' Hoops , over Halbards , over 16 mens Heads , over an Horse with a Man on his back , and two Boys standing upright on his Shoulders . In short , there is no Agility of Body , as Walking , Vaulting or Tumbling , but what is perform'd in this Booth .

You will likewise be Entertain'd with Good Musick , and the Merry Conceits of Pickle-Herring and his Son Punch .