 | Philip Massinger - 1805 - 540 sider
...single step towards explaining what this celebrated pastime really was. It was played by six people (three of each sex), who were coupled by lot. A piece...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division, to catch the others, who advanced from... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 sider
...single step towards explaining what this celebrated pastime really was- It was played by six people, (three of each sex,) •who were coupled by lot. A...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It ivas the object of the couple condemned to this division, to catch the others, who advanced from... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 542 sider
...celebrated pastime really was. It was placed by six people (three of each sex), who were coupled b} lot. A piece of ground was then chosen, and divided...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division, to catch the others, who advanced from... | |
 | 1813 - 592 sider
...from the following passage iu the " Arcadia," Book I. . " It was played by six people-, (three of eaeh se,x,) who were coupled by lot. A piece of ground was then chosen, and divided iuto three compartments, of which (he middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 452 sider
...Massinger, chiefly from the "Arcadia," describes Barley-break thus : " It was played by six people, (three of each sex,) who were coupled by lot. A piece...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced from the... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 892 sider
...Massinger, chiefly from the "Arcadia," describes Barley-break thus : " It was played by six people, (three of each sex,) who were coupled by lot. A piece...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced from the... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 390 sider
...were ¡n May, 1776, " that the commissioners of PLATE TAX. An order was made in the house of lords coupled by lot. A piece of ground was then chosen,...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced from the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 sider
...childhood." Why was Barley-break also catted " Last in Hell " ? Because it was played by six people, (three of each sex) who were coupled by lot. A piece...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced from the... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 924 sider
...Massinger, chiefly from the " Arcadia," describes Barley-break thus : " It was played by six people, (three of each sex,) who were coupled by lot. A piece...compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced from the... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 sider
...Massinger, chiefly from the " Arcadia,'1 describes Barley-bieak thus : " It was played by six people, (three of each sex,) who were coupled by lot. A piece...three compartments, of which the middle one was called kell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced... | |
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It was played by six people (three of each sex), who were coupled by lot. A piece of ground was then chosen., and divided into three compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division, to... 
