Bergomask
“dance—A,”
A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, v. 1.
343
;
“your Bergomask,”
A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, v. 1.
350.
“A dance after the manner of the peasants of Bergomasco, a
county in Italy belonging to the Venetians. All the buffoons in Italy affect to imitate
the ridiculous jargon of that people, and from thence it became a custom to mimic also
their manner of dancing”
(HANMER)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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