Artemidorus wrote: “To play with a top is pain and travaile, whereof notwithstanding shall come good.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Playes and Pastimes. · Book 1, encoded section 43 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To play with a top is pain and travaile, whereof notwithstanding shall come good. To play at Tennis, signifieth long noyse and quarrels, and often foretels love towards a whore: for the Ball represents the whore, because it hath no stay, and it goeth through the hands of many.
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