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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;A young maid asks her wooer to go with her. "What shall we do there, wench?" She replies, "Why, play at stool-ball; what else is there to do?"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Fletcher and Shakespeare, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Two Noble Kinsmen&lt;/span&gt; [London], Act V, Scene 2, per W. W. Grantham, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Stoolball Illustrated and How to Play&lt;/span&gt; It [W. Speaight, London, 1904], page 29. David Block, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Baseball Before We Knew It&lt;/span&gt;, page 170, gives 1634 as the publication date of this play, which was reportedly performed in 1612, and mentions that doubts have been expressed as to authorship, so Shakespeare [1564-1616] may not have contributed. Others surmise that The Bard wrote Acts One and Five, which would make him the author of the stoolball reference. See also item #1600c.2 above. &lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; can we find further specifics? Russell-Goggs, in "Stoolball in Sussex," &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Sussex County Magazine&lt;/span&gt;, volume 2, no. 7 (July 1928), page 320, notes that the speaker is the "daughter of the Jailer."&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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