tennise

Updated: July 25, 2025

The monks had had to be requested not to play especially, the edict said, "not in public in their shirts." Our Englishman, of course, thought this enthusiasm was beyond bounds. "Ye have seene them play Sets at Tennise in the heat of Summer and height of the day, when others were scarcely able to stirre out of doors."

Clare Howard - English Travellers of the Renaissance