CHAPTER V.

I. Dancing, Tumbling, and Balancing, part of the Joculator's Profession--II. Performed by Women--III. Dancing connected with Tumbling--IV. Antiquity of Tumbling--much encouraged--V. Various Dances described--VI. The Gleemen's Dances--VII. Exemplification of Gleemen's Dances--VIII. The Sword Dance--IX. Rope Dancing and wonderful Performances on the Rope--X. Rope Dancing from the Battlements of St. Paul's--XI. Rope Dancing from St. Paul's Steeple--XII. Rope Dancing from All Saints' Church, Hertford--XIII. A Dutchman's Feats on St. Paul's Weathercock--XIV. Jacob Hall the Rope Dancer--XV. Modern celebrated Rope Dancing--XVI. Rope Dancing at Sadler's Wells--XVII. Fool's Dance--XVIII. Morris Dance--XIX. Egg Dance--XX. Ladder Dance--XXI. Jocular Dances--XXII. Wire Dancing--XXIII. Ballette Dances--XXIV. Leaping and Vaulting--XXV. Balancing--XXVI. Remarkable Feats--XXVII. The Posture-Master's Tricks--XXVIII. The Mountebank--XXIX. The Tinker--XXX. The Fire-Eater 207