Toxophilus: the Schole, Or Partitions, of Shooting
Toxophilus: the Schole, Or Partitions, of Shooting
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568
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1. plainly ( 78 ) plainly what great ufe of ihootinge, and vihzt pro- vifion even from the beginninge of the worldc for ihootinge was amonge the Jgw^s. The Ethiopians which inhabite the furthoft parte South in the worlde, were wonderfull bowmen : mfomuch that when Cambyfes Kingoi Pirfie^ being in Egypu f^nt certaine embailadours into Etbiopi to the King there, with manyc great giftes : the King of TEthiopij perceyvinge them to be efpyes, toke them uppe (harpelye, and blamed Camijfis greatly for... fuch unjuft enterprifes : but after that he had princelye entertayned them, he fent for a bowe, and bente it and drewe it, and then unbent it againe, and iayd unto the embailadours, you ihall commende me to Cambyfes^ and geve him this bowe from me, and bidde him when any Perfian can ihoote in this bowe, let him fet upon the Ethi^ epiam: in the mean while let hhn geve thanckes unto God, which doth not put in the Etbiepianr mindes to conquere any other mans lande. This bowe, when it came amonge the Pirfians^ never one man in fuch an infinite hoafi (as Hero^ doius doth faye) could ilyre the ilringe, iave only 7 Herodotus in Thalia.
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