Bodleian Library, MS Aubrey
8, fol. 44
John Aubrey's Life of
John Ogilby
, mentioning Ogilby's performance in the masque. This classmark comprises a
miscellaneous assemblage of Aubrey's notes, essays and sketches from 1680-1; it forms
the third of a series of
three MSS which together have been edited as Aubrey's Brief
Lives.
[fol. 45]
When the Duke of
Buckingham
's great Masque was represented at Court, ⎡
B. Jonson
. G. A.⎤ he was chosen (among the rest) to performe
some extraordinary part in it - and high danceing ⎡(1) vaulting & cutting
capers⎤ being then in Fashion, he endeavouring to doe something extraordinary,
by misfortune of a false step when he came to the ground, did spraine a veine on the
inside of his Leg, of which he was lame euer after, which
gaue an occasion to say, "that he was an excellent Dancing master, and never a good
Leg.
Bibliography
Aubrey (1898), 2.100
H&S, 10.612