Yet I was well skilled in the game of the Golf, and have driven a Holland ball the length of an arrow-flight, there or thereby.

But wherefore should my sinful soul be now in mind of these old vanities, repented of, I trust, long ago?
As we twain, Dickon and I, were known for fell champions at this unholy sport, many of the other scholars followed us, laying wagers on our heads.

They were but a wild set of lads, for, as then, there was not, as now there is, a house appointed for scholars to dwell in together under authority.

We wore coloured clothes, and our hair long; gold chains, and whingers {3} in our belts, all of which things are now most righteously forbidden.

But I carried no whinger on the links, as considering that it hampered a man in his play.