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Anglo-Saxon Harper and Hoppestere.—X. Century

Anglo-Saxon Harper and Hoppestere.—X. Century.jpg A Horse dancing to the Pipe and TaborThumbnailsLa GaillardA Horse dancing to the Pipe and TaborThumbnailsLa GaillardA Horse dancing to the Pipe and TaborThumbnailsLa GaillardA Horse dancing to the Pipe and TaborThumbnailsLa Gaillard

Here we see a youth playing upon a harp with only four strings, and apparently singing at the same time, while an elderly man is performing the part of a buffoon or posture master, holding up one of his legs, and hopping upon the other to the music.