Chronology Entry Edit: 1648.1

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Text:	<p>"At Stool-ball, <em>Lucia</em>, let us play," offers the poet, then proposing that if he wins, he would "have for all a kisse."</p> <p>[Full text is in Supplemental Text, below.]</p>
Sources:	<p>Herrick, Robert, <span>Hesperdes: or, the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.</span> [London], page 280, per David Block, <span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 171.</p>
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Supplemental Text

Text supplied by Mark Pestana, email o 1/7/2020:   STOOL-BALL. At stool-ball, Lucia, let us play For sugar-cakes and wine: Or for a tansy let us pay, The loss, or thine, or mine. If thou, my dear, a winner be At trundling of the ball, The wager thou shall have, and me, And my misfortunes all. But if, my sweetest, I shall get, Then I desire but this: That likewise I may pay the bet And have for all a kiss. (Tansy being a cake of flour, eggs, cream, and herbs. Trundling, I think, means throwing or projecting in some manner.)

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