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Also in Cotgrave's French Dictionary, published in 1611, the word crosse is translated "a cricket-staff, or the crooked-staff wherewith boys play at cricket." In the eighteenth century allusions to the game become more frequent, although it was still a boy's game. It had its poet, who sang "Hail, cricket, glorious, manly, British game, First of all sports, be first alike in fame."