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Rh Dr. B. Barberous rascal!

J. F. No barbary at all, but certain cure. I can cure this man if he (be) not dead, So pray me honest friend rise up thine head.

And as he gets up you all march in a ring and say altogether—

Then march in a straight line and sing songs.

There are two mummer characters omitted in the paper. One enters with—

Gives the double shuffle or some other dance.

Then enters the Devil with—

Then all dance in a ring with the Devil in the middle, who then drives them all out.

In 1876 a book, Letters from Lusitama, was published in Windsor, in which the anonymous author, having been in official residence amongst the copper-mines in Portugal, gives an account of various doings which came under his notice amongst the Portuguese and