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The meaning of the chorus was* 
All men mull furely die, 
Tho’ no one knows how foon. 
Yet when the time fhall come. 
The event may be joyful. 
Thefe doleful moral fongs or elegies, have a 
quick and fenfible effect on their palffons, and dif- 
cover a lively affedtion and fenfibility: their coun- 
tenance now dejedted, again, by an eafy tranfition, 
becomes gently elevated, as if in folemn add-refs or 
fupplication, accompanied with a tremulous, fweet, 
lamentable voice : a ftrangcr is for a moment loft to 
himfelf as it were, or his mind, affbciated with the 
perfon immediately affedted, is in danger of reveal- 
ing his own diftrefs unawares. 
They have a variety of games for exercife and 
paftime; fome particular to the men, fome to the 
female lex, and others wherein both fexes are en- 
gaged. 
The ball play is efteemed the moft noble and 
manly exercife. This game is exhibited in an ex- 
tenfive level plain, ufually contiguous to the town 2 
the inhabitants of one town play againft another, in 
confequence of a challenge, when the youth of both 
fexes are often engaged, and fometimes ftake their 
whole fubftance. Here they perform amazing feats 
of ftrength and agility. The game principally con- 
lifts in taking and carrying oft' the ball from the op- 
pofite 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 conftrudtion, 
fome what refembling a ladle or little hoop-net, 
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