Note 1084 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
stool-ball] So called from being played with a stool (or stools) and a ball: see Sports, &c., by Strutt, who says, “it seems to have been a game more properly appropriated to the women than to the men.” P. 77.
Reading edition
stool-ball] So called from being played with a stool (or stools) and a ball: see Sports, &c., by Strutt, who says, “it seems to have been a game more properly appropriated to the women than to the men.” P. 77.