 To this entertainment, there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain ; he...  A Journey Into England: In the Year M.D.XC.VIII. - Page 21by Paul Hentzner - 1807 - 61 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Karl Mantzius - Theater - 1904 - 302 pages
...English Dramatic Poetry, iii. p. 94. wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six...circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain ; he defends himself with all his force... | |
 | Maximilian Dametz - 1904 - 36 pages
...that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of a blinded bear, whieh is performed by five or six men, standing circularly...whips, which they exercise upon him without mercy, äs he cannot escape frorn them because of his chain; he defends hirnseif with all his force and skill,... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 360 pages
...killed on the spot. Fresh ones are immediately supplied in th& place of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of...whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five 01 six men, standing circularly, with whips, which they eierciso upon nim without any mercy, as he... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter, Morton Dexter - Dissenters, Religious - 1905 - 538 pages
...baiting of Bulls and Bears, they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs. . . . To this entertainment there often follows that of whipping a blinded Bear. All this continued far into the seventeenth century. The ducking-stool, also, and the scold's bridle,... | |
 | 1906 - 690 pages
...upon the spot. Fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of...circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy.' Cf. the account of Ordish, London Theatres, pp. 237 ff., drawn from the Alleyn Papers.... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Inheritance and succession - 1906 - 408 pages
...upon the spot. Fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of...with whips, which they exercise • upon him without any mercy.' Cf. the account of Ordish, London Theatres, pp. 237 ff., drawn from the Alleyn Papers.... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - Sports - 1907 - 470 pages
...another inhuman diversion. This was known as " Whipping the Blind Bear " ; and as described it was " performed by five or six men standing circularly with...exercise upon him without mercy, as he cannot escape because of his chain. He defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within... | |
 | Maggs Bros - Antiquarian booksellers - 1914 - 866 pages
...on the spot : fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of...bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing in a circle with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy : although he cannot escape... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - England - 1910 - 568 pages
...on the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of...circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape because of his chains ; he defends himself with all his force and skill,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1913 - 538 pages
...Library for these books.) 387, 268. Whipping of the blinde-Beare. " To this entertainment [bear-baiting] there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear,...six men standing circularly with whips which they can exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape because of his chain.'' Hentzner, Itinerary,... | |
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