These tumblers are said to have come from Holland, but they sound like (apprentices of) Venetians, of whom more another day:
The splendid fair of Saint Germain,
Here today, or gone demain:
And so, a truce of castanets,
Of monkeys, and of marionettes;
A truce of those bold parlous leaps,
A truce of marvellous human heaps.1
Illiterate Southern Occitans and the UNESCO mafia would have you believe that biological pyramids were invented towards the end of the War of the Spanish Succession at Valls, just up the River Francolí from Tarragona. Sed testudines nos non assentimur:
Anecnotes
| 1. | ⇑ | ’t Hath suffered a we-change:
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