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 evidently lasted into James's reign, but the notices are briefer. Lewis Frederick of Württemberg, saw on 26 April 1610 the baiting both of bears and bulls 'and monkeys that ride on horseback'; and Justus Zingerling of Thuringia, who was in London about the same year, mentions the 'theatra comoedorum, in which bears and bulls fight with dogs'. Even more summary is the reference in an itinerary of Prince Otto von Hesse-Cassel in 1611. But the extracts given sufficiently describe the nature of the sport, and show that bulls continued to be baited up to a late date, as well as bears, and that the serious business of the spectacle was diversified by regular humorous episodes, such as the monkey on horseback and the whipping of the blind bear. He, by the way, was called Harry Hunks, and is named by Sir John Davies in his Epigrams of c. 1594, in company with the Sackerson who gave rise to a boast on the part of Master Slender, and at a later date by Dekker and Henry Peacham. Two other famous bears were Ned Whiting and George Stone. Both are alluded to in Ben Jonson's Epicoene (1609), and the latter also in The Puritan (1607). The death of the 'goodlye