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" ... to hawk, to hunt, to play at tennis, and all pastimes generally which be joined with labour used in open place, and on the daylight, containing either some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime for peace, be not only comely and decent, but... "
The Massachusetts Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education - Page 73
1853
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The Schoolmaster: Or, A Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to ...

Roger Ascham - Latin language - 1711 - 296 pages
...comely and decent, but alfo very neceffary for a courtly Gentleman to ufe. But of all kind of Paftimes fit for a Gentleman, I will, God willing, in fitter Place more at large declare fully, in my The Cotk- Sock of the Cockpit ,* which I do write to fafit tisfy fome, I truft with fome Reafon, that...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...generally, which be joined with labour, used in open place and on the day light, containing either some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime...also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use. Towards the end of tins treatise, there are several pages which treat, incidentally indeed, of the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...generally, which be joined with labour, used in open place and on the day light, c6ntaining either some fit exercise for war, or .some pleasant pastime...very . necessary for a. courtly gentleman to use. Towards the end of this treatise, there are several pages which treat, incidentally indeed, of the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...generally, which be joined with labour, used in open place and on the day light, containing either some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime...also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use. Towards the end of this treatise, there are several pages which treat, incidentally indeed, of the...
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The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth

Roger Ascham - Archery - 1815 - 428 pages
...generally, which be joined with labour, used in open place, and on the day-light, containing either some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime for peace, be not only comely and decentj^but also very necessary for a courtly gentteman to use. But of all kind of pastimes fit for...
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The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth ...

Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1835 - 636 pages
...the day-light, and which contain some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime for peace. These be not only comely and decent, but also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use.' Asch. Schoolmaster, p. 6iJ. l" ' Now-a-days the JUDGES be afraid to hear a poor man against the rich...
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The history of the reigns of Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth, Volume 1

Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1835 - 664 pages
...day-light, and which contain some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime for peace. These be riot only comely and decent, but also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use.' Aach. Schoolmaster, p. 63. m ' Xow-a-days the JUDGES be afraid to hear a poor man against the rich...
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The schoolmaster: essays on practical education, selected from the works of ...

Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...pastimes generally which be joined with labour used in open place, and on the daylight, containing either some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime...gentleman, I will, God willing, in fitter place, more ut large declare fully, in my ' Book of the Cockpit,' which I do write to satisfy some, I trust with...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...pastimes generally which be joined with labour, used in open place, and in the daylight, containing either some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime...also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use." To " ride comely," to " shoot fairly in bow, or surely in gun," " to hawk, to hunt," were pastimes...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...pastimes generally which be joined with labour, used in open place, and in the daylight, containing cither some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime...also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use." To " ride comely," to "shoot fairly in bow, or surely in gun," " to hawk, to hunt," were pastimes in...
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