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38 ROGER ASCHAM

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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oloure, and shall also bryng as it were a cruste, over it, thatis to say, shall make it every where on the outsyde, so slyp-pery and harde, that neyther any weete or wether can enterto hurte it, nor yet any f reat or pjmche, be able to byte uponit : but that you shal do it great wrong before you breake it.This must be done oftentimes but specially when you comefrom shootynge. Beware also whan you shoote, of youre shaft hedes, dag-ger, knyves, or agglettes, lest they race your bowe, a thingas I sayde before, bothe unsemely to looke on, and also daun-gerous for freates. Take hede also of mistie and dankyshedayes, whiche shal hurte a bowe, more than any rayne.For then you muste eyther alway rub it, or els leave shoot-ynge. Your bowecase (this I dyd not promise to speake of, by-cause it is without the nature of shootjmge, or els I shouldetruble me wyth other thinges infinite more : yet seing it isa savegarde for the bowe, somethynge I wyll saye of it)youre bowecase I saye, yf you ryde forth, muste neyther beto wyde for youre bowes, for so shall one clap upon an other,and hurt them, nor yet so strayte that scarse they can bethrust in, for that would laye them on syde and wynde them.A bowecase of ledder, is not the best, for that is ofttymesmoyste which hurteth the bowes very much. Therfore Ihave sene good shooters which would have for everye bowe,-a sere case made of woUen clothe, and than you maye putte.iii. or. iiii. of them so cased, into a ledder case if you wyll.This woUen case shall bothe kepe them in sunder, and alsowylle kepe a bowe in his full strengthe, that it never gyvefor any wether. At home these wood cases be verye goodfor bowes to stand in. But take hede yat youre bowe standenot to nere a stone wall, for that wyll make hym moyste andweke, nor yet to nere any fier for that wyll make him shorteand brittle. And thus muche as concernjmg the savyngand keping of our bowe ; nowe you shall heare what thyngesye must avoyde, for f eare of breakyng your bowe. A shooter chaunseth to break his bowe commonly, iiii.wayes, by the strynge, by the shafte, by drawjmg to far,and by freates; By the stryng as I sayde afore, whan the"Strynge is eyther to shorte, to long, not surely put on, wyth
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