Roger Ascham, Toxophilus: The School of Shooting (1545)
Date
1545
Author
Book title
Toxophilus the schole of shootinge contayned in two bookes
Publication place
London
Printer
Edward Whitchurch
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Other
Summary
This includes explanations of some parts of the bow and the archer's equipment.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: other
sample: A bracer serueth for two causes, one to saue his arme from the strype of the strynge, and his doublet from wearynge, and the other is, that the strynge glydynge sharpelye & quicklye of the bracer, maye make the sharper shoote. For if the strynge shoulde lyght vpon the bare sleue, the strengthe of the shoote shoulde stoppe and dye there. But it is best by my iudgemente, to gyue the bowe so muche bent, that the strynge neede neuer touche a mannes arme, and so shoulde a man nede no bracer as I knowe manye good Archers, whiche occupye none. In a bracer a man muste take hede of .iii. thinges, yt it haue no nayles in it, that it haue no bucles, that it be fast on with laces wythout agglettes. For the nayles wyll shere in sunder, a mà„nes string, before he be ware, and so put his bowe in ieoperdy: Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, shall race hys bowe, a thinge bothe euyll to the syghte, & perilous for freatynge. And thus a Bracer, is onelye had for this purpose, that the strynge maye haue redye passage.
sample: A bracer serueth for two causes, one to saue his arme from the strype of the strynge, and his doublet from wearynge, and the other is, that the strynge glydynge sharpelye & quicklye of the bracer, maye make the sharper shoote. For if the strynge shoulde lyght vpon the bare sleue, the strengthe of the shoote shoulde stoppe and dye there. But it is best by my iudgemente, to gyue the bowe so muche bent, that the strynge neede neuer touche a mannes arme, and so shoulde a man nede no bracer as I knowe manye good Archers, whiche occupye none. In a bracer a man muste take hede of .iii. thinges, yt it haue no nayles in it, that it haue no bucles, that it be fast on with laces wythout agglettes. For the nayles wyll shere in sunder, a mà„nes string, before he be ware, and so put his bowe in ieoperdy: Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, shall race hys bowe, a thinge bothe euyll to the syghte, & perilous for freatynge. And thus a Bracer, is onelye had for this purpose, that the strynge maye haue redye passage.
STC
837
