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The meaning of the chorus was* 
All men moft furely die, 
Tho 5 no one knows how foon* 
Yet when the time iball come 3 
The event may be joyful. 
Thefe doleful moral longs or elegies, have % 
quick and fenlible effedi on their paffions, and 
difeover a lively afleft ion and fenfihility t rtbeir 
countenance bow deje&ed, again, by an ealy 
tranlition, becomes gently elevated, as if in 
folemn addrefs or fupplkatioB, accompanied 
with a tremulous, fweet, lamentable voice ; a 
Itranger is for a moment loft tohimfelf as it were, 
©r his mind , affodated with the perfon immedi- 
ately affeded, is in danger of revealing his own 
diftrefs unawares. 
They have a variety of games for exercife and 
paftime ; feme particular to the men, feme to the 
female fex, and others wherein both fexes are 
engaged. 
* The ball play is efteemed 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 againft: 
another, in eonfequence of a challenge* when the 
youth of both fexes are often engaged* and feme- 
times ftake 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, midway 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 racquet or hurl, which 
is an implement of a very curious conftru&ion, 
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