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- 1600c.2 + (<p>"Shakespeare mentions games of "b … <p>"Shakespeare mentions games of "base" and "rounders. Lovett, <u>Old Boston Boys</u>, page 126."</p></br><p>Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809. <b>Caveat:</b> We have not yet confirmed that Lovett or Shakespeare used the term "rounders." Gomme [page 80], among others, identifies the Bard's use of "base" in Cymbeline as a reference to prisoner's base, which is not a ball game. John Bowman, email of 5/21/2008, reports that his concordance of all of Shakespeare's words shows has no listing for "rounders" . . . nor for "stoolball," for that matter [see #1612c.1, below], 'tho that may because Shakespeare's authorship of <u>Two Noble Kinsmen</u> is not universally accepted by scholars..</p>authorship of <u>Two Noble Kinsmen</u> is not universally accepted by scholars..</p>)