The Tenise-play. Cha. 9.
SHall we play a set at tenise you and I?
Lets go to the great Bracke at White-hall.
VVhere is the maister that keepes the tenis
Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language.
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- Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language.
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- Eliot, John.
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- 1593.
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"Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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Page 60
Here I am sir, what is your pleasure?
Giue vs some soft and gentle shooes here.
Rackets and bals bring here ho.
Well, play.
I haue fifteene.
A losse, marke that chace there.
Fifteene all.
This racket is not vvorth a rush.
Some more rac∣kets ho.
Now giue me a faire ball.
I cannot take a ball aboue hand, nor at rebound.
The chace is mine.
I am thirtie.
Thirtie all.
Aske standers by, I touched it not.
Fortie fiue.
At dews then.
A ball, I haue the aduantage.
The set is mine.
I vvill bande a ball more then six score paces mounting, with this racket vvhich you refuse.
Looke here.
Page 61
O diuell! vvat a fir∣king stroke is that.
You haue an arme of yron.