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| In white sleev'd shirts are playing by the score, And even this little River's gentle roar, | 1807 |
In white sleev'd shirts are playing by the score,
And even this little River's gentle roar,
At the beginning of Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal of a Tour on the Continent in 1820, she writes (July 10, 1820):
"When within a mile of Dover saw crowds of people at a cricket match, the numerous combatants dressed in 'white-sleeved shirts;' and it was in the very same field, where, when we 'trod the grass of England once again,' twenty years ago, we had seen an assemblage of youths, engaged in the same sport, so very like the present that all might have been the same. (See my brother's sonnet.)"
Ed.