te use for the diverting
Melancholly, for Exercise of the Body, by runing and stirring in this
Game, for helping likewise sundry Bodily Infirmities, as the _Stone_,
_Gravel_, _Reins_, &c. For which aforesaid ends several Pious, Learned
and Sober Persons have sometimes made up the Company of a
_Bowling-Green_ (tho I must confess rarely to be seen in those common
_Bowling-Allies_ and _Bares_, which too usually are pestered with
_Damming-Rooks_, _Cunning Betters_, _Crafty Matchers_, and base
_Booty-Players_:) Herein we may see the World moralized, or
emblematically described, where most are short, over, wide or
wrong-Byassed, and few justle in to the Mistress _Fortune_: On one side
we find _Heraclitus_ and his Followers fret, vex, rail, swear and cavil
at every thing; on the other side _Democritus_, and his Company rejoice
and laugh, as if they were created for that purpose. On one side you may
see the _Mimick_ screwing and twisting his Body into several Postures,
which he perswades himself adds either to the Swiftness or Slowness of
his Bowl; On the other side the senseless _Orator_, with his perswasive
Intreaties of _Rub, O Rub a little_; Or, _Flee, Flee_, and the like, to
hasten or retard the Speed of his Bowl; when if the stupid Bowl lend a
deaf Ear to his Perswasions, then he _belyes_ his Disobedience, by
crying _Short, Short, O Short_, when tis gone ten yards over; and when
tis bowled short of the _Jack_ six yards, he cryes, _Gone a Mile,
a Mile, a Mile_, &c. But not to detain you any longer in characterizing
this excellent sport: (_Excellent_ I mean if rightly used) I shall
before I lead you into the _Green_ or _Bare_, instruct you in some
Rules, how to choose your _Bowls_.

The first and greatest Cunning to be observed in _Bowling_, is the right
_chusing your Bowl_, which must be suitable to the Grounds you design to
run on, thus: For _close Alleys_, your best Choice is the _Flat Bowl_:
2. For _open Grounds_ of Advantage, the _Round-Byassed-Bowl_; 3. For
_Green Swarths_, that are plain and level, the Bowl that is _Round as a
Ball_.

The next thing requires your Care is, _The chusing out your Ground_, and
preventing the Windings, Hangings, and many turning _Advantages_ of the
same, whether it be in open wide places, as _Bares_ and
_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 Bow