“The Judge to dance his brother Sergeants call,
The Senators at _Cricket_ urge the ball.”
And Duncome, curious to observe, laying the scene of a match near
Canterbury, wrote,--
“An ill-timed _Cricket Match_ there did
At Bishops-bourne befal.”
Soame Jenyns, also, early in the same century, wrote in lines that
showed that cricket was very much of a “sporting” amusement:--
“England, when once of peace and wealth possessed,
Began to think frugality a jest;
So grew polite: hence all her well-bred heirs
Gamesters and jockeys turned, and _cricket_-players.”