Publications, Volum 75

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Society at Clarendon Press, 1923

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Passatges populars

Pàgina 122 - Italy, and for the excellency of the recreation is much approved of and plaid by most nations in Europe, especially in England, there being few towns of note therein which hath not a publick billiard table, neither are they wanting in many noble and private families in the country for the recreation of the mind and exercise of the body.
Pàgina 106 - They walked to and fro with their hands in their pockets to see a match played by some scholars and some gentlemen fam'd for their skill. I gaped also and stared as a man in his way would doe ; but a country ruff gentleman, being like to lose, did swear at such a rate that my heart did grieve that those fine young men should hear it and know there was such a thing as swearing in the kingdom. Coming to my lodgings, I charged my son never to go to such publick places unless he resolved to quarrel with...
Pàgina 109 - The two marks of his seniority is the bare velvet of his gown and his proficiency at tennis, where when he can once play a set, he is a freshman no more.
Pàgina 97 - Since there is no pleasure more noble, delightsome or void of cozenage (free from trickery) and deceit than this pleasure of cocking is ; and since many of the best wisdoms of our nation have been pleased to participate with the delights therein, I think it not amiss ... to declare in a few lines the election, breeding and secrets of dieting...
Pàgina 123 - He observed that the howses that had the smallest beer had most drunkards, for it forced them to goe into the town to comfort their stomachs : wherefore Dr. Kettle alwayes had in his College excellent beer, not better to be had in Oxon ; so that we could not goe to any other place but for the worse, and we had the fewest drunkards of any howse in Oxford. . . . He was...
Pàgina 126 - August 2 Fol. 69 September 3 quarrelled with a Scholar in ye Taverne./ They came furnished with 14 playes. And lodged at ye Kings Armes, where Franklin hath about 3'1 a day while they stay, ie for every play 4 nobles besides ye benefit of seats. — The University statutes appointed to be read of ye Bachelowrs & Schollars in our CoHedge by Mr Provost, w'h an exhortation to obedience thereunto. The Assizes held at Oxford. A training of soldiers by the townesmen. Report of some fines mulcted by ye...
Pàgina 88 - Kicot, sent down a shower of stones that they had picked up, upon him and his retinew, wounding some and endangering others of their lives. It is said that upon the foresight of this storm, divers had got boards, others tables on their heads to keep them from it, and that if the Lord had not been in...
Pàgina 114 - Is one that comes there to wear a gown, and to say hereafter, he has been at the university. His father sent him thither because he heard there were the best fencing and dancing schools ; from these he has his education, from his tutor the oversight. The first element of his knowledge is to be shewn the colleges, and initiated in a tavern by the way, which hereafter he will learn of himself.
Pàgina 128 - ... done in the university. I caused the university to send both the clothes and the perspectives of the stage ; and the play was acted at Hampton Court in November following. And by all men's confession the players came short of the university actors. Then I humbly desired of the king and the queen, that neither the play nor clothes nor stage might come into the hands and use of the common players abroad, which was graciously granted.
Pàgina 98 - In summer time to Medley, My love and I would go; The boatmen there stood ready, My love and I to row. For cream there would we call, For cakes, and for prunes too; But now, alas! sh' 'as left me, Falero, lero, loo.