=
Billiards
appears to have been an
out-of-door game until the sixteenth century.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
' Herrick, _Hesper., Cerem.
Candlemas-Eve_: 'The crisped yew.'
=2. 6. 85 well torn'd.= Jonson's usual spelling. See
_Timber_, ed. Schelling, 64. 33; 76. 22. etc.
=2. 6. 85 Billyard ball.
=
Billiards
appears to have been an
out-of-door game until the sixteenth century.
It was probably
introduced into England from France. See J. A. Picton, _N. &
Q._. 5. 5. 283. Jonson uses this figure again in _Celeb. Charis_
9. 19-20.
=2. 6. 92 when I said, a glasse could speake=, etc.
