Here are the bears that dance like any ladies. Tota, tota, tot goes the little penny trumpet, 'Here's your Jacob Hall, that can jump it, jump it. Sound trumpet: a silver spoon and fork; Come, here's your dainty Pig and Pork” ** “The old Droll Players' Lamentation, being very pleasant and diverting. 1701.” “Oh! mourn with us all you that live by play, The Reformation took our gains away: We are as good as dead now money's gone, No Droll is suffer'd, not a single one! Jack Pudding now our grandeur doth exceed, And grinning granny is by fates decreed To laugh at us, and to our place succeed. But after all, these times would make us rave, That won't let's play the Fool as well as Knave!” --and Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise,”--“Judith and Holofernes,” * --“Dives and Pauper,”--the “Humours of Noah's Ark, or the Drolleries of the Deluge,”--“Jeptha's Rash Vow,”--and “The Pleasant Conceited History of Abraham and Isaac!” These Mysteries ** were only endured when tacked to “a Comick Dance of gigantic automatons the “merriments of Sir John Spendall and Punchinello; Pickle-Herring and Punch.” Of the multifarious and ludicrous literature of the “Rounds” little remains. The serious portion consisted, as we have shown, of such representations taken from Bible History, after the manner of the Chester and Coventry Monks, and the ancient Parish Clerks of Clerkenwell, as were most likely to beget an awful attention in the audience; and the comic, of detached scenes of low humour from Shakspere, and Beaumont and Fletcher, like “The Wits *** * “To be sold in the Booth of Lee and Harper, and only printed for, and by G. Lee, in Blue Maid Alley, Southwark.” ** Spence, in his anecdotes, describes a Mystery he saw at Turin, “where a damned female soul, in a gown of flame- coloured satin, intreats, as a favor, to be handed over to the fires of purgatory, for only as many years as there are drops of water in the ocean!”