l:
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, shruggs 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: It makes
the languid and slothful, _brisk_ and _sprightful_; and rejects
_Effeminacy_ and _Delicacy_, as contemptible and unworthy so Royal and
Noble a Recreation: And so General indeed is the Estimation this
Exercise of _Tennis_ amongst most meets with, that it is reckoned one of
the most absolute Qualifications of a well-bred Gentleman, throughly to
understand this famous Game.

But why should we wonder at the general Love Gentlemen have for this
Recreation, since it must be acknowledged, it challengeth as deserving a
place in the Catalogue of violent Exercises, as any that goes before it
in this Treatise; indeed it may be well rankt among those great
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