The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 370
ther, so as to be equipoised; and either end beingoccupied by a boy or a girl, they raise or depress themselvesm turn. This sport was sometimes played by the rustic ladsand lasses, as we find from Gay: Across the fallen oak the plank I laid. And myself poisd against the tottring maid ; High leapd… … 98. Shuttle-cock.—XIV. CtwTUnT3 Eustatioa ad Iliad. G. 304 SPORTS AND PASTIMES JJOOK IV. It appears to have been a fashionable pastime among grownpersons in the reign of James I. In the Two Maids of More-clacke, a comedy printed in 1609, it is said, To play at shuttle-cock methinkes is the game…
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