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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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THE SCHOOLE OP SHOOTYNGE 33

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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us sayth, that of every joynte of a rede, a man may make afyshers bote. These bowes, sayeth Arrianus in Alexanderslyfe, gave so great a stroke, that no harness or bucklerthough it were never so strong, could wythstand it. Thelength of such a bowe, was even wyth the length of hymthat used it. The Lycians used bowes made of a tree, calledin Latyn CornuSy (as concemyng the name of it in English,I can sooner prove that other men call it false, than I cantell the right name of it my selfe) this wood is as harde ashome and very fit for shaftes, as shall be toulde after. Ovid sheweth that Syringa the Nymphe, and one of themaydens of Diana, had a bowe of this wood whereby thepoete meaneth, that it was verye excellent to make bowes of. As for brasell, Elme, Wych, and Asshe, experience dothprove them to be but meane for bowes, and so to conclude,Ewe of all other thjmges, is that, wherof perfite shootyngwoulde have a bowe made. Thys woode as it is nowe generall and common amongesEnglyshe men, so hath it continewed from longe tyme andhad in moost price for bowes, amonges the Romaynes, asdoth apere in this verse of Vyrgill.
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