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Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

Note 123 — PORTSMOUTH'S Lamentation

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It is a curious fact that both Nares and Halliwell, in their glossaries, describe Drolls as being puppet shows, when, as is shown, they were acted by living people.

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