is also good for
the Head: _Shooting in a long Bow_ for the Breast and Arms; and helps
Squinting: _Bowling_ for the Reins, Stone, Gravel, &c._

_Nor are the several other _Games_ commonly practised, less
_Commendable_, were they used with a _modest_ and _prudent_ Care:
I recomend them as useful as the other, were a _right use_ made of them.
I would not have them made a _Trade_, instead of a _Divertisement_. But
especially those that are managed by _Skill_, and not Fortune, may be
Learned, for these acquaint a man with _Numbring_, and quicken the Fancy
and Memory, and recreate the Mind._

_And as Recreation is thus natural and necessary, so is it _Commendable_
too, and recommended by the Practises of all Ages; as well sacred as
prophane Histories plainly testifying the Truth of it. But I shall not
trouble you any longer by detaining you at the Door, and enumerating the
various _Examples_, which may Authorize a vertuous Use of Recreations,
and apologize for this Work: The severest _Stoick_ being never so cruel
to himself or Nature, as not to give his mind some _Relaxation_, and
recreate it in some more pleasant Pathes, than the miry heavy wayes of
his own sullen and wilful _Resolutions_. Nor do our _Modern Stoicks_,
tho of the strictest Lives, deny themselves some _Mental_, if not bodily
Recreations; altho perhaps _Infirmity_, _Age_, _Station_, _Degree_, may
render their Divertisements the more _private_, yet not totally denyed.
_Solomon_ had his _Ittan_ for Recreations, as _Josephus_ informes us,
and the _Heathen_ Sages their _Olympiques_, wherein were exercised,
_Wrestling_, _Running_ with _Horses_, _Leaping_, _Coursing_ with
_Chariots_, _Contention of Poets_, _Rhetoricians_, _Disputations of
Phylosophers_, &c._

_And because _Velle suum cuique_, every Mans Nature claimes a special
Prerogative, in the electing a Recreation _Suitable_ to it self, one
thing being very pleasing and delightful to one, and offensive and
troublesome to another, I have therefore like the industrious _Bee_
gathered _Honey_ from various _Flowers_, and according to your _Palate_
taste and Eat; I have carefully _Delineated_ and drawn to the Life the
divers _Figures_ of the several Recreations, and leave you to admire
that _Peice_ you fancy best; intreating you to put them to the best
_Use_, not to make them your Trade instead of _Recreation_; in which
sence I would have you to accept this: And now you may walk in and view
the Structure._