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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." 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. Short Herrick Poem Proposes a Wager on Stool-ball Game"
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