BOOK I NOTES

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_running at Base_] The old game of prisoner’s-base, then a common

rustic pastime.

[b1-02]

_recklessness_] _i.e._ Carelessness. See Spencer.

[b1-03]

_ruefully_] Woefully.

[b1-04]

_Tarantula_] A venomous Spider (so called from Tarento a city of

Naples) whose bite is of such a nature, that it is to be cured only by

music.

[b1-05]

_Quintain_] A rural sport, chiefly used at marriages, wherein, running

a tilt on horse-back with poles, at a large stake fixed in the ground,

against which, he that breaks most poles, gains the prize.

[b1-06]

_Barley-break_] Running-matches made by the country girls, with each

other, as hereafter described.