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Page 44 - We are glad, the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present, and your pains, we thank you for: When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set, Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard...
Page 141 - If both players have won three strokes, the score is called deuce ; and the next stroke won by either player is scored advantage for that player.
Page 45 - He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest thing in the world to see him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture.
Page 191 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 58 - He is a particular lover of horses, and what belongs to them, but is not fond of hunting ; and when he goes to it, it is rather for the pleasure of galloping than that which the dogs give him.
Page 141 - ... for that player. If the same player win the next game, he wins the set ; if he lose the next game, the score is again called games-all...
Page 186 - Servants and Labourers shall have Bows and Arrows, and use the same the Sundays and Holydays, and leave all playing at tennis or foot-ball, and other games called coits, dice, casting of the stone, kailes p, and other such importune games.
Page 69 - To the Tennis Court, and there saw the King play at Tennis and others : but to see how the King's play was extolled, without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight, though sometimes, indeed, he did play very well, and deserved to be commended ; but such open flattery is beastly.
Page 57 - In this freedom of heart, being one day at tennis, a peer of this realm, born great, greater by alliance, and superlative in the prince's favour, abruptly came into the tennis-court ; and, speaking out of these three paramount authorities, he forgot to entreat tliat which he could not legally command.
Page 41 - When queen Elizabeth was entertained at Elvetham, in Hampshire, by the earl of Hertford, " after dinner about three o'clock, ten of his lordship's servants, all Somersetshire men, in a square greene court before her majesties windowe, did hang up lines, squaring out the forme of a...