I have, however, seen so much of modern fashions, modern accomplishments, and modern fine ladies, that I relish this tinge of antiquated style in so young and lovely a girl; and I have had as much pleasure in hearing her warble one of the old songs of Herrick, or carew, or Suckling, adapted to some simple old melody, as I have had from listening to a lady amateur skylark it up and down through the finest bravura of Rossini or Mozart.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The struggle is expressively described by carew:-"The hurlers take their way over hills, dales, hedges and ditches, through bushes, briers, mires, plashes, rivers; sometimes twenty or thirty lie tugging together in the water, scrambling and scratching for the ball."
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
48; royal garrisons driven from, 55 carew, Sir Peter, iv.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
