The Nose Dance at Fool's Town by Sebald Beham, 1500-1550
The text reads:
| "One day I found much enjoyment In going to a peasant Kirchwieh At a village called Fool's Town There I found many greedy peasants All full to the gills, Eating and drinking and shouting. The maids sang to the bagpipe music While the youths ran and sprang about, Throwing each other down on their backsides So that many were badly hurt." | The text then goes on to describe the dance/game (the person with the largest nose wins... I would kick butt). The prizes are suspended from the pole consist of a garland (1st place), a nose sock (2nd) and pair of underpants (3rd). | "Peasants and their relatives came running up, An enormous multitude all provided with long noses Long, fat, and bent, droopy and pocked, Croked, snotty, broad, plump, and spotty," ...he really goes on like this for 4 more lines "When the pipers both played up the dancers grabbed each other by the nose And pulled one another into the ring" |