And scores six notches for the deed.
There is in particular a great contest between Kent and Surrey, celebrated in a ballad of sixty-five verses, in which
The fieldsmen, stationed on the lawn,
Well able to endure,
Their loins with snow-white satin vests
That day had guarded sure,
and it is related that in this match also the Duke of Dorset was playing for the honour of his county, for we are told that
Young Dorset, like a baron bold,
His jetty hair undrest,
Ran foremost of the company,