'5. Likewise Dancing on the Tight Rope, and a Young Man that Vaults the Slack Rope, with variety of Tumbling. '6. A New Dance of Eight Granadiers, who perform the whole Exercise of War, in their proper Accoutrements, to the just Time of Musick. '7. A New Scotch Dance, with their Habits and Bonnets, perform'd by Two Boys, to Admiration. '8. A New Entertainment between a Scaramouch, a Harliquin, and a Punchanello in Imitation of Bilking a Reckoning. '9. A New Cane Chair Dance by Eight Persons. '10. A New Dance by Four Scaramouches, after the _Italian_ Manner. '11. A New Dance by a Scaramouch and a Country Farmer. '12. A New Swan's Dance, perform'd by Four young Lads, to the Amazement of all Spectators. '13. We shall also present you with the Wonder of her Sex, a young Woman who dances with the Swords, and upon the Ladder, with that Variety, that she challenges all her Sex to do the like. '14. A Cripples Dance by Six Persons with Wooden Legs and Crutches in Imitation of a Jovial Crew. '15. A Posture Dance, perform'd by Eight Persons. '16. A Dance by Six Men, wherein Two Coopers, Two Grinder and Two Butchers perform everything natural to their Trades. '17. The _Vigo_ Dance, perform'd by an _English_ Man, a _Dutch_ Man, a _French_ Man, and a _Spaniard_. '18. A Blacksmith's Dance. '19. A Tinker's Dance; together with other extraordinary Entertainments too long to be inserted. Vivat Regina.' There was a famous Merry Andrew who used to act for Pinkethman, and who, at other times, followed the vocation of a Horse Doctor. There is a very curious elegy upon him, still extant[343]:-- [Footnote 343: _Harl. MSS._, 5931, 251.] That us'd to visit _Smithfield_ or _May Fair_, To pertake of the Lewdness that is acted there; T' oblige the Mobb, that did some Pastime lack, He'd _Merry Andrew_ turn; and name of Quack Forsake a Fortnight, then that time expir'd The name of _Doctor_ was again acquir'd. Occasionally there were rather more refined exhibitions, but they were very rare. Here is one, 'In the first Booth on the left Hand from the Hospital Gate, over against the Royal Oak Lottery, in Bartholomew Fair, from 9 o'clock in the Morning till 9 at Night, will be exposed to publick View, all the most valuable wrought Plate taken by her Majesties Fleet at Vigo. Having been first Lodged in the Tower and never exposed before but in the Tower, viz., a fine large Altar Piece with 6 Angels at full proportion, standing round on Pedestals, 4 Apostles supporting the 4 pillars, and 4 Angels attending them, with each a lamp for Incence in their Hands, also a Crown set with Valuable Stones, a Holy Water Pot garnish'd with Curious Fillegrin Work, and a great many other extraordinary Curiosities of Gilt and Fillegrin Plate, all brought from Vigo. The like never seen in England before. Price 6_d._'