“. . . Meanwhile the company talk, and one relates that he has already seen in the Fair, the eagle; the black wolf; the bull with five legs, which ‘was a calf at Uxbridge Fair two years agone;’ the dogs that dance the morrice; and ‘the hare o’ the taber.’”
“Ben Jonson’s mention of the hare that beat the tabor at Bartholomew Fair in his time, is noticed by the indefatigable and accurate Strutt; who gives the [above] representation of the feat itself, which he affirms, when he copied it from a drawing in the Harleian collection, to have been upwards of four hundred years old.”
– William Hone, Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
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