The fairest casts are those that owe
No thanks to fortune's giddy sway;
Such honest men good bowlers are
Whose own true bias cutts the way.
In the three delineations just represented, we may observe that the players have only one bowl for each person: the modern bowlers have usually three or four.
II.—BOWLING-GREENS FIRST MADE BY THE ENGLISH.
Bowling-greens are said to have originated in England; [829] and bowling upon them, in my memory, was a very popular amusement. In most country towns of any note they are to be found, and some few are still remaining in the vicinity of the metropolis; but none of them, I believe, are now so generally frequented as they were accustomed to be formerly.
III.—BOWLING-ALLEYS.
The inconveniency to which the open greens for bowling were necessarily obnoxious, suggested, I presume, the idea of making bowling-alleys, which, being covered over, might be used when the weather would not permit the pursuit of the pastime abroad; and therefore they were usually annexed to the residences of the opulent; wherein if the ladies were not themselves performers, they certainly countenanced the pastime by being spectators; hence the king of Hungary, in an old poem entitled The Squyer of Low Degree, says to his daughter, "to amuse you in your garden
An hundredth knightes, truly tolde,