Bergomask: “a B. dance,” Mids. V, 360. Mids. V, 360 Nares: "a rustic dance, framed in imitation of the people of Bergamasco, a province in the state of Venice, who are ridiculed as being more clownish in their manners and dialect than any other people in Italy. All the Italian buffoons imitate them."
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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