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t is playne in Homer, where Menelaus was wounded ofPandarus shafte, that the heedes were not glewed on, buttyed on with a string, as the commentaries in Greke playne-lye tell. And therfore shoters at that tyme to carry theirshaftes withoute heedes, untill they occupyed them, andthan set on an heade as it apereth in Homer the. xxi. bookeOdysseiy where Penelope brought Ulixes bowe downeamonges the gentlemen, whiche came on wowing to her,that he whiche was able to bende it and drawe it, mightinjoye her, and after her folowed a mayde sayth Homer,carienge a bagge full of heades, bothe of iron and brasse. The men of Scythia, used heades of brasse. The men ofInde used heades of yron. The Ethiopians used heades ofa harde sharpe stone, as both Herodotus and Pollux do teLThe Germanes as Cornelius Tacitus doeth saye, had theyrshaftes headed with bone, and many countryes both of oldetyme and nowe, use heades of home, but of all other jrronand style muste nedes be the fittest for heades. Julius Pollux calleth otherwyse than we doe, where thefethers be the head, and that whyche we call the head, hecalleth the poynte. Fashion of heades is divers and that of olde tyme : twomaner of arrowe heades sayeth Pollux, was used in oldetyme. The one he called lyxivo^ describynge it thus, havyngtwo poyntes or barbes, lookyng backewarde to the stele andthe fethers, which surely we call in Englishe a brode arrowehead or a swalowe tayle. The other he calleth r^**'/^?, hav-ing, ii. poyntes stretchyng forwarde, and this Englysh men
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