ll have it go farther than a beginning sweat, as being
[3225]perilous if it exceed.

Of these labours, exercises, and recreations, which are likewise included,
some properly belong to the body, some to the mind, some more easy, some
hard, some with delight, some without, some within doors, some natural,
some are artificial. Amongst bodily exercises, Galen commends _ludum parvae
pilae_, to play at ball, be it with the hand or racket, in tennis-courts or
otherwise, it exerciseth each part of the body, and doth much good, so that
they sweat not too much. It was in great request of old amongst the Greeks,
Romans, Barbarians, mentioned by Homer, Herodotus, and Plinius. Some write,
that Aganella, a fair maid of Corcyra, was the inventor of it, for she
presented the first ball that ever was made to Nausica, the daughter of
King Alcinous, and taught her how to use it.

The ordinary sports which are used abroad are hawking, hunting, _hilares
venandi labores_, [3226]one calls them, because they recreate body and
mind, [3227]another, the [3228]"best exercise that is, by which alone many
have been [3229]freed from all feral diseases." Hegesippus, _lib. 1. cap.
37._ relates of Herod, that he was eased of a grievous melancholy by that
means. Plato, _7. de leg_. highly magnifies it, dividing it into three
parts, "by land, water, air." Xenophon, in _Cyropaed_. graces it with a
great name, _Deorum munus_, the gift of the gods, a princely sport, which
they have ever used, saith Langius, _epist. 59. lib. 2._ as well for health
as pleasure, and do at this day, it being the sole almost and ordinary
sport of our noblemen in Europe, and elsewhere all over the world. Bohemus,
_de mor. gent. lib. 3. cap. 12._ styles it therefore, _studium nobilium,
communiter venantur, quod sibi solis licere contendunt_, 'tis all their
study, their exercise, ordinary business, all their talk: and indeed some
dote too much after it, they can do nothing else, discourse of naught else.
Paulus Jovius, _descr. Brit._ doth in some sort tax our [3230] "English
nobility for it, for living in the country so much, and too frequent use of
it, as if they had no other means but hawking and hunting to approve
themselves gentlemen with."

Hawking comes near to hunting, the one in the air, as the other on the
earth, a sport as much affected as the other, by some preferred. [3231]It
was never heard of amongst the Romans, invented some twelve hundred years
since, and first ment