In half-whiptwhipt: to whip is “to sew slightly” (Johnson). Muslin Needles useless lye,
And Shuttle-cocks across the Counter fly.
These Sports warm harmless; why then will ye prove,
Deluded Maids, the dang’rous Flame of Love?
The Dangers of Football.
Where
Covent-garden’s famous
Temple stands,
That boasts the Work of
Jones’ immortal Hands;
Columns, with plain Magnificence, appear,
And graceful Porches lead around the Square:
Here oft’ my Course I bend, when, lo! from far,
I spy the Furies of the Foot-ballFoot-ball: a game involving kicking a round ball that is commonly made of a blown bladder encased with leather. War:
The ’Prentice quits his Shop, to join the crew,
Encreasing Crouds the flying Game pursue.
Thus, as you roll the Ball o’er snowy Ground,
The gath’ring Globe augments with ev’ry Round;
But whither shall I run? the Throng draws nigh,
The Ball now Skims the Street, now soars on high;
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The
The dext’rous GlazierGlazier: a person who makes glass windows. strong returns the Bound,
And ginglinggingling: jingling. SashesSashes: windows that can be lifted up and down by pullies.
on the Pent-house sound.
An Episode of the great Frost.
O roving Muse! recal that wond’rous Year,
When hoary
Thames, with frosted OziersOziers: now spelt osier, they are a type of willow tree.
crown’d,
When Winter reign’d in bleak Britannia’s Air;
Was three long Moons in icy Fetters bound.
The Waterman,Waterman: a boatman. forlorn along the
Shore,
Pensive reclines upon his useless Oar,
Sees harness’d Steeds desert the stony Town;
And wander Roads unstable, not their own:
Wheels o’er the harden’d Waters smoothly glide,
And rase with whiten’d Tracks the slipp’ry Tide.
Here the fat Cook piles high the blazing Fire,
And scarce the Spit can turn the Steer entire.
Booths sudden hide the
Thames, long streets appear,
And num’rous Games proclaim the crouded Fair.
So