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... reference to it in English literature is Chaucer's metaphor in " Troylus and Cryseyde " : - But canstow playen racket to and fro , Nettle in , dokke out , now this , now that , Pandare . At any rate , a game very like tennis , in which ...
... reference to it in English literature is Chaucer's metaphor in " Troylus and Cryseyde " : - But canstow playen racket to and fro , Nettle in , dokke out , now this , now that , Pandare . At any rate , a game very like tennis , in which ...
Page 56
... references in classical authors , this was a very favourite means of gentle exercise . It was especially the game of old men and boys , who found in the large , but very light , inflated ball of leather a pastime that healthily ...
... references in classical authors , this was a very favourite means of gentle exercise . It was especially the game of old men and boys , who found in the large , but very light , inflated ball of leather a pastime that healthily ...
Page 61
... reference to the pastimes of Charles II.'s reign , but it seems certainly to have died out with the Stuarts in England . While , then , in Britain this game was only for a short time in the front rank of pastimes , on the Continent ...
... reference to the pastimes of Charles II.'s reign , but it seems certainly to have died out with the Stuarts in England . While , then , in Britain this game was only for a short time in the front rank of pastimes , on the Continent ...
Page 69
... references in early Gaelic songs and elsewhere , it is pretty clear that this ball - play must have been adopted by the Gael very long ago . In Mr. J. F. Campbell's " Popular Tales of the West High- lands " the references to this game ...
... references in early Gaelic songs and elsewhere , it is pretty clear that this ball - play must have been adopted by the Gael very long ago . In Mr. J. F. Campbell's " Popular Tales of the West High- lands " the references to this game ...
Page 78
... reference to pall mall we have been able to find in this country is in the papers presented to Norfolk , Sussex , and Sir Ralph Sadler , the Commissioners appointed by Eliza- beth in 1568 , nominally to inquire into the conduct towards ...
... reference to pall mall we have been able to find in this country is in the papers presented to Norfolk , Sussex , and Sir Ralph Sadler , the Commissioners appointed by Eliza- beth in 1568 , nominally to inquire into the conduct towards ...
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Page 77 - No sooner has he touched the flying ball, But 'tis already more than half the mall; And such a fury from his arm has got, As from a smoking culverin 'twere shot.
Page 121 - This is a game played in several parts of England even at this time. A stake is fixed into the ground ; those who play throw loggats at it, and he that is nearest the stake wins...
Page 192 - They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit, is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Page 104 - ... common grounds, our archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling alleys, and ordinary dicing houses, nearer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games ; and there I leave them to take their pleasures *. HONOUR OF CITIZENS, AND WORTHINESS OP MEN IN THE SAME.
Page 57 - ... purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity. Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred, and was the chief director and manager of those games frequented by the nobility and gentry (some of whom came...
Page 194 - This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep ; and so on.' After that, they use the same ceremony to the noxious animals : ' This I give to thee, O fox ! spare thou my lambs ; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, O eagle...
Page 4 - The losse or thine, or mine. If thou, my Deere, a winner be At trundling of the Ball, The wager thou shalt have, and me, And my misfortunes all.
Page 12 - I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.
Page 82 - Here could be seen in one moving mass, extending the whole length of the Mall, five thousand of the most lovely women in this country of female beauty, all splendidly attired, and accompanied by as many welldressed men.
Page 88 - overtaken by one of the opposite party ; and then, if he could shake himself loose from those on the opposite side who seized him, he...