ar, and in this Recreation
observe the ensuing Morality of

The Tennis-Court.

_When as the Hand _at Tennis_ Playes,
And Men to Gaming fall,
_Love_ is the _Court_, _Hope_ is the _House_,
And _Favour_ serves the _Ball_._

_This _Ball_ it self is _due Desert_,
The _Line_ that measure showes
Is _Reason_, whereon _Judgment_ looks
Where Players win and lose._

_The _Tutties_ are _Deceitful Shifts_,
The _Stoppers_, _Jealousy_,
Which hath Sir _Argus_ hundred Eyes,
Wherewith to watch and pry._

_The _Fault_ whereon _Fifteen is lost_,
Is _Want of Wit and Sense_,
And he that brings the _Racket_ in
Is _Double Diligence_._

_But now the _Racket_ is _Free-Will_,
Which makes the _Ball_ rebound,
And noble _Beauty_ is the _Choice_,
And of each Game the _Ground_._

_Then _Racket_ strikes the _Ball_ away,
And there is _Over-sight_,
A _Bandy_ ho! the People cry,
And so the _Ball_ takes flight._

_Now at the length _Good-liking_ proves
_Content_ to be their _Gain_:
Thus in the _Tennis-Court_, _Love is
A Pleasure mixt with Pain_._

Of Ringing.

Since this Recreation of _Ringing_ is become so highly esteemed, for its
excellent _Harmony of Musick_ it affords the _Ear_, for its
_Mathematical Invention_ delighting the _Mind_, and for the _Violence of
its Exercise_ bringing Health to the _Body_, causing it to transpire
plentifully, and by Sweats dissipate and expel those Fuliginous thick
_Vapours_, which _Idleness_, _Effeminacy_ and _Delicacy_ subject men to;
I say for these and sundry other Reasons, I was induced to bring this of
_Ringing_ into the Company of _Exercises_ in this Treatise, that I might
as well recreate you with some health-conducing Pleasure at _home_, as I
have carryed you _abroad_, and there endeavoured to please you in what
Pastime your Inclinations may most peculiarly select.

Whosoever would then become an accurate Master of this excellent Art and
Pleasure, and is very desirous to be esteemed an Elaborate and Ingenious
_Ringer_, and be enrolled amongst that Honoured _Society_ of +Colledge
Youths+; I must beg Leave to instruct him before he enters the
_Bell-free_, in these ensuing short Rules, which he must strictly
observe. _viz._

1. That as all _Musick_ consists in these six plain _Notes_, _La Sol Fa
Mi Re Ut_; so in _Ringing_, a Peal of Bells is Tuned according to these
Princ