and many turning Advantages of the
same, whether it be in open wide places, as Bares & Bowling-greens, or
in close Bowling-alleys.

Lastly, Have your Judgment about you to observe and distinguish the
Risings, Fallings and Advantages of the Places where you Bowl: Have your
Wits about you to avoid being rookt of your Money: And have your
Understanding about you, to know your best Time and Opportunity for this
Recreation; and finally a studious Care of your Words and Passions, and
then Bowl away, and you may deserve, _Well have you bowled indeed_.

But methinks I cannot conclude here, without admiring how aptly a
Bowling-green is by the Divine _Quarles_ characterized, in the following
Verses, thus,

_Brave Pastime,_ Readers, _to consume that day,
Which without Pastime flies too swift away!
See how they labour, as if Day and Night
Were both too short to serve their loose Delight?
See how their curved Bodies wreath, and skrue
Such Antick Shapes as_ Proteus _never knew:
One rapps an Oath, another deals a Curse,
He never better bowl'd, this never worse;
One rubs his itchless Elbow, shrugs and laughs,
The t'other bends his Beetle-brows, and chafes;
Sometimes they whoop, sometimes the_ Stygian _cryes,
Send their black_ Santo's _to the blushing Skies:
Thus mingling Humours in a mad Confusion
They make bad premisses and worse Conclusion._

Thus much for Bowling.

_Of TENNIS._

This Recreation is of the Same Date for its Antiquity of Invention with
Bowling, and for the Violence of its Exercise to be preferred before it.
This Sport indeed is of so universal an Acceptance, that Majesty it self
is pleased to design it its Recommendation, by tracking its laborious
steps; and Princes and Lords admire it too for the most proper
Recreation, to suit with Innocence, and true Nobility. Here the Body is
briskly exercised more than ordinary, and inured in Agility and
Nimbleness; this renders the Limbs flexible and mettlesom, and adapts
them for the most Vigorous Enterprize.

_Tennis_ and _Baloon_ are sports which are play'd almost with the same
Instruments; and therefore may be under one and the same Head: The first
is a Pastime, used in close or open Courts, by striking a little Round
Ball to and fro, either with the Palms of the hands (and then is called
_Pila palmaria_ in Latin) or else a _Racket_, made for the purpose,
round with Net or Cat-gut, with a Handle: The