Hitters use the open-handed tip to try to softly place the ball over the blockers or into other open areas of the opponent's court.

But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.

What's in the dog-hearted dog-brained dog's heart?

Although they ſemme us onely to affect, ’Tis their Content, not ours, they moſt reſpect : They for their own ends cunningly can feigne, And though they have’t by nature, yet they’ll ſtrain : Snre if on earth, by wiles gain’d might be bliſſe, Staight that I were a woman I would wiſh.