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Short Herrick Poem Proposes a Wager on Stool-ball Game
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| Game | StoolballStoolball |
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| Text | "At Stool-ball, Lucia, let us play," offers the poet, then proposing that if he wins, he would "have for all a kisse." [Full text is in Supplemental Text, below.] |
| Sources | Herrick, Robert, Hesperdes: or, the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq. [London], page 280, per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 171. |
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1648.1 Short Herrick Poem Proposes a Wager on Stool-ball Game"
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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.)