This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...under his belt, or occasionally twenty-four f were borne, with a corresponding difference in the saying.J These were carried in many ways, owing, no doubt, to differences in locality and in time. They are represented as worn over the left shoulder and over the right, at the right side of the belt and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...under his belt, or occasionally twenty-four f were borne, with a corresponding difference in the saying.J These were carried in many ways, owing, no doubt, to differences in locality and in time. They are represented as worn over the left shoulder and over the right, at the right side of the belt and at the left, with the points projecting forward, and with the feathered ends forward. These may be seen in the ordinary illustrations; but it is interesting to notice that the archers of this part of the country carried them with the points directed behind, so that the feathers appeared to cover the left breast. Occasionally they were borne in a quiver, which was pendent, like the dagger, at either the right or left side; the earliest specimens of which appear to have been of basket work. Esau is directed to take his weapons, his quiver and his bow, and go out to the field; and of the horse it is said in Job, "the quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear, and the shield." f In Layard's Illustrations there are numerous La Normandie Souterraine, p. 22. t He's taen four-and-rwenty braid arrows, And laced them in a whang, 0; And he's awa to Lady Margerie's bower, As fast as ha e.m gang, O. AfotAenedl, p. 371. "The Scottish, according to Ascham, had a proverb, that every English archer carried under his belt twenty-four Scots, in allusion to hia bundle of unerring shafts."--Scott, t Planche, 445. Painting in the window of Mid-dleton Church, Lancashire. Genesis xxvii., 3. Job xxix., 23. quivers shown, and of very different' degrees of excellence." Some, which lie scattered on the battle-field, are rude cases, with one large handle through which the belt passed; others, which are attached to the...
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