_When as the Hand at_ Tennis _Plays, And Men to Gaming fall_, Love _is the_ Court, Hope _is the_ House, _And_ Favour _serves the_ Ball,
_This_ Ball _it self is due Desert, The Line that measure shows Is_ Reason _whereon_ Judgment _looks Where Players win and lose._
_The_ Tutties _are Deceitful Shifts, The_ Stoppers, Jealousy, _Which hath Sir_ Argus _hundred Eyes, Wherewith to watch and pry._
_The Fault whereon_ Fifteen is lost, _Is Want of_ Wit _and_ Sense, _And he that brings the_ Racket _in Is_ Double Diligence.
_But now the_ Racket _is_ Free-will, _Which makes the_ Ball _rebound, And Noble_ Beauty _is the_ Choice, _And of each Game the Ground._
_Then_ Racket _strikes the_ Ball _away, And there is_ Over-sight, _A_ Bandy _ho! the People cry, And so the_ Ball _takes flight._
_Now at the length_ Good-liking _proves Content to be their Gain: Thus in the Tennis-Court,_ Love is A Pleasure mixt with Pain.
Whosoever would become an accurate Master of this excellent Art and Pleasure, and is very desirous to be esteemed an Elaborate and Ingenious Ringer, and be enrolled amongst that Honoured Society of =College Youths=; I must beg leave to instruct him before he enters the Bell-free, in these ensuing short Rules; which he must strictly observe, _viz._
1. That as all _Musick_ consists in these six plain _Notes_, _La Sol Fa Mi Re Ut_; so in _Ringing_, a Peal of Bells is Tuned according to these Principles of Musick: For as each _Bell takes its Denomination from the Note it Sounds_, by its being flatter or deeper, as, _First_, or Treble, _second_, _third_, _fourth_, &c. as they are in number to _ten_ or _twelve_ Bells, the last being called the _Tenor_; So must they successively strike one after another both _Fore-stroke_ and _Back-stroke_, in a due Musical time or Equi-distance, to render their Harmony the more Pleasant, and to make the Young Practitioner the better informed to observe the _Life of Musick_, and indeed of true Ringing, _Time_; and therefore is called, _Round-ringing_.
2. As in Musick, so in Ringing there are three _Concords_, so called from their Melodious Harmony and Agreement, which Principally are these; _Thirds_, _viz._ 1 3, 2 4, _&c._ _Fifths_ 1 5, 2 6, _&c._ _Eights_ 1 8, 2 9, 3 10, _&c._ and these are the more pleasant according to the Number of Bells they are struck on, and as they are struck, whether separately or mutually. From hence _Changes_ are made, which is only a Changing place of one _Note_ with another, so variously, as Musick may be heard a thousand ways of Harmony; which being so obvious to common Observation, I shall not go about to demonstrate; for that if two may be varied two ways, surely by the Rule of _Multiplication_, a Man may easily learn how many times 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 12 Bells Notes may be varied; which will run almost _ad infinitum_.