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Poet Yearns to "Goe to Stoole-Ball-Play"
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| Text | Breton, Nicholas, I Would, and Would Not [London], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 168. Stanza 79 reads "I would I were an honest Countrey Wench/ . . . / And for a Tanzey, goe to Stoole-Ball-Play." Tansy cakes were reportedly given as prizes for ball play. |
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1614. Poet Yearns to "Goe to Stoole-Ball-Play""
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