Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age

by Nathan Drake

To jumpe or lepe over ditch or hedge;

To wrastle, play at stool-balle, or to runne;

To pitch the barre or to shote offe the gunne;

To play at loggets, nineholes, or ten pinnes;

To trye it out at fote balle by the shinnes;

At ticke tacke, seize noddy, maw, or ruffe;

Hot-cockles, leape froggè, or blindman's buffe;

To drinke the halfer pottes, or deale att the whole canne;

To playe at chesse, or pue, and inke-horènne;

To daunce the morris, playe at barley breake;