 | Derek Birley - History - 1993 - 372 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...but also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use.41 Yet Ascham himself was addicted not only to gaming but to cock-fighting. In 1574 one of Elizabeth's... | |
 | E. Digby (Edward Digby) Baltzell - Social Science - 1994 - 330 pages
...tennis and all pastimes generally, which be joined with labour, used in open place, and in the daylight, containing some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant...but also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use.24 But as the technical requirements of public service in the new nation state demanded less leisurely... | |
 | Alfred Leslie Rowse - England - 2003 - 636 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...but also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use."3 The idealistic Humphrey Gilbert, reflecting on these matters, produced a scheme for an Academy... | |
 | June Osborne - History - 2003 - 208 pages
...comely, to hawk, hunt and play tennis, but also to sing, and play of instruments cunningly', which is not only 'comely and decent, but also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use'. He also says that in order to appreciate literature, the courtier must have some knowledge of literary... | |
 | Nick Frost - Political Science - 2005 - 448 pages
...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 'M Ascham's own education was itself one of the notable exceptions to the general rule of neglect of... | |
 | History - 2006 - 312 pages
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 | Kathryn Hinds - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2008 - 94 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. Similarly, noble girls usually learned to dance, sing, and play at least one musical instrument. Sometimes... | |
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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... 
