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The meaning of the chorus was, 
All men muft furely die, 
Tho* no one knows how foon, 
Yet when the time mall come, ' 
The event may be joyful. 
Thefe doleful moral fongs or elegies, have a 
quick and fenfible effect on their paffions, and dif- 
cover a lively affection and fenfibility : their coun- 
tenance now dejected, again, by an eafy tranfition, 
becomes gently elevated, as if in folemn addrefs or 
fupplication, accompanied with a tremulous, fweet, 
lamentable voice : a ftranger is for a moment loft 
to himfelf as it were, or his mind, affociated w r ith 
the perfon immediately affected, is in danger of re- 
vealing his own diftrefs -unawares. 
They have a variety of games for exercife and 
paftime : fome particular to the men, fome to the 
female fex, and others wherein both fexes are en- 
gaged. 
The ball play is e [teemed the moft noble and 
manly exercife. This game is exhibited in an 
extenfive level plain, ufually contiguous to the 
town : the inhabitants of one town play again ft 
another, in confequence of a challenge, when the 
youth of both fexes are often engaged, and feme- 
times flake their whole fubftance. Here they 
perform amazing feats of ftrength and agility. 
The game principally confifts in taking and car- 
rying off the ball from the oppofite party, after 
being hurled into the air, mrdway between two 
high pillars, which are the goals, and the party 
who bears off the ball to their pillar wins the 
game ; each perfon has a racket or hurl, which 
is an implement of a very curious conftruclion, 
fome what 
