THE KENTTSH CRICKETERS: In' 1778 .
Kent , who is famed for men of skill
Whom Nature formed to climb the hill 
Descend the vale with rapid flight 
And shine heroic men of might 
Agreed,a Cricket hatch to nlay
With Surrey men , as famed as they
Tn July last, at Bishopsboume
Before the gulden shocks of corn 
were ream by the laborious hind
To ease 1 he anxious farmer's mind
The matchless cricketers were seen
Tn milk-whit© vestments tread the preen 
Where the smooth grass was laid com bleat 
Before sir Horace Mann's Estreat
When the sweet lawn, with shady trees
VficuHFn'ayw ' d ■ ruttlfil -z- s ens at t on * s Pleas e
The rural prospect of the grove
Nature so kindly made for love
The towering hi 11,ana neighb'ring vale 
gliding stream of the canal
But view the scene ! aescri-nt ion's faint
My pen its beauties cannot -paint .
Brom aid ant Counties many came 
To see tire Herculean game 
Nobles, SQuires, Captain's view 
physicians, Lawyers, hectors too, 
"lying in haste, the sport to see 
which R’.sMcs call, their Jubilee 
Lumley appears, whose steady eye
* no nervous arm makes wickets fly 
Calls for Kentish men to play