A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES* 



and buckler; fencing with a two-handed 

 fvvord ; and playing with the quarterftaflf. 



The three rural fports ; ^hunting ; 

 iifhing; .and hawking. 



The feven domeftic and literary 

 games: poetry; playing on the harp ; 

 reading Welfh ; fmging a fong with 

 the harp and Crwth ; fmging an ode in 

 four parts with accentation ; heraldry ; 

 and embafly. 



The four inferior games : chefs ; 

 draughts, and fhuffleboard ; dice, or bach 

 gammon;* and tuning the harp.-f 



From ancient, I will now defcend to 

 modern times, from that hardy race of 

 warlike characters, which were with fo 

 much difficulty fubdued by the Englifh 

 monarchs, to their prefent peaceful Hate, 



* Our prefent game of back-gammon feems to have been 

 taken from this; it's name being evidently derived from the 

 Ericiih words bach and gammon* which fignify a little battle 

 or con left. 



* jor.cs's Welfh Bards, p. 36. 



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