...Phillips, John Milton's nephew, in his " Mysteries of Love and Eloquence " (8vo. 1685), writes thus: — " Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my...head with a cricket-ball the day before I saw thee ? ' " We shall presently show the word Cricket, in Eichelet, as early as the year 1680. A late author...

...Phillips, John Milton's nephew, in his " Mysteries of Love and Eloquence " (8vo. 1685), writes thus: — " Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my head and cry, ' Would my eyes had heen healen out of my head with a cricket-hall the day hefore I saw thee ?' " We shall presently show...

...— " Will you not, when you have me, throw stools at my head and cry: 'Would my eyes had been beat out of my head with a cricket-ball the day before I saw thee.' " This mention of the game of cricket by Phillips is, we believe, the first distinct mention of the...

...seventeenth century. Edward Phillips, who wrote in 1685, represents a lady as addressing her lover thus : " Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my...of my head with a cricket-ball the day before I saw theef" Stowe mentions it as one of the pastimes of the lower order of Londoners, and Tom D'Urfey as...

...seventeenth century. Edward Phillips, who wrote in 1685, represents a lady as addressing her lover thus : " Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my...head with a cricket-ball the day before I saw thee?' " Stowe mentions it as one of the pastimes of the lower order of Londoners, and Tom D'Urfey as a sport...

...it changes every day." — LADY BLKSRINOTON. " Quale caput, sed cerebrum non habet." — SULDAS. " Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my...out of my head with a cricket-ball the day before I eair thee 1 ' " — EDWAIUI PHILLIPS, Mysteries of Love and Eloquence. ri "iHE gallant Euddiman, whose...

...it changes every day." — LADY BLBSSTKOTON. " Quale caput, scd cerebrum non habet." — SUIDAS. " Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my...Would my eyes had been beaten out of my head with a crickefe-ball the day before I saw thee I '" — EDWAKD PHILLIPS, Mysteries of Low and Eloquence. THE...

...cerebrum non habet." — SUIDAS. " Will yon not, when yon have me, throw stocks at my head, and cry, ' Won my eyes had been beaten out of my head with a cricket-ball the day before I pa thee I '" — EDWARD PHILLIPS, Mysteries of Lorn and Eloquence, gallant Ruddiman, whose last active...

...caput, sed eerebrum non habet." — SUIDAS. " Will yon not, when you have me, throw stocks at my bead, and cry, * Would my eyes had been beaten out of my head with a cricket-hall the day before I saw thec!"' — EDWARD PHILLIPS, Jfysteriee of Love and Etoqutnct. THE...

...nephew of Milton), called ' Mysteries of Love and Eloquence,' in which one of the characters asks : ' Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my head and say, " Would my eyes had been beaten out of my head with a cricket ball the day before I saw thee "...