Note 824 — FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES; OR, THE ANT AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
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the motion, &c.] i. e. the puppet-show: that of Nineveh, which was very celebrated, has been mentioned before, vol. i. p. 229, and vol. iv. p. 166. In Euerie Woman in her Humour, 1609, Getica observes, that she had seen “the Cittie of new Niniuie and Iulius Cæsar acted by the Mammets, [i. e. puppets],” sig. H.; and Dekker somewhere calls the latter exhibition a villanous motion.