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 (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 374
, so as to be equipoised; and either end being-occupied by a boy or a girl, they raise or depress themselvesin 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 the… … 98. Shuttle-cock.—XIV. Centurt. Eustatius ad Iliad. G. 304 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV. Jt 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 playatshnttle-cock methinkes is the game now.…
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