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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06902	The art of archerie Shewing how it is most necessary in these times for this kingdome, both in peace and war, and how it may be done without charge to the country, trouble to the people, or any hinderance to necessary occasions. Also, of the discipline, the postures, and whatsoever else is necessarie for the attayning to the art.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1634 (1634)	STC 17333; ESTC S111944	47,462	196

from the length of our Bowes The Scriptures make mention of Brasse-bowes Iron-bowes Steele-bowes all which were vsed of long time and are yet at this day among the Turks but yet they must needs be vnprofitable for it Brasse Iron or Steele haue their owne strength and vigor in them they are far aboue a mans strength If they be made meet for mans strength their vigor is allay'd and their Strength nothing worth to shoot any strong shoot withall The Ethiopians made their Bowes of the Palme-tree w ch seemed to be very strong but with vs out of experience being 4. Cubits in length The Indians haue their Bowes made of Reed w ch are wondrous strong it is no maruel they framed their Bow shafts therof for as Herodotus reports euery Reed was so big that a man might make a Fisher boat thereof These Bowes sayth Apian in Alexanders life gaue so great a stroake that no Armour or Shield though it were neuer so strong was able to withstand it the length of such a Bow was euen with the length of him that vsed it The Licians vsed Bowes made of a certaine Tree called in Latine Cornus touching the name in English I can sooner prooue that other men call it false then I can tell the right name my selfe This wood is as hard as a Horne and very fit for Shafts as shal be declared hereafter Ovid sheweth that Syrinx a Nymph and one of the handmaids of Diana had a Bow of this wood whereby the Poet meaneth that it was the most excellentest for this purpose As for Brazill Elme Wishe and Ashe experience doth prove them to be but in the meane degree and so to conclude of all woods whatsoeuer the Ewghe is that whereof perfect Shooting would haue a Bow made This wood as it hath long beene and is now general and common amongst vs so was it in former times acquired and had in most price especially amongst the Romans as doth appeare in this halfe verse of Virgil Taxit or quentur in Arcus Ewghe fit for Bow to be made on Now this Bow of Ewghe ought to be made for perfect shooting at at the pricke which Marke because it is certaine and most certaine I will draw ground all my Rules from that head onely and the rather because whosoeuer is excellent at it cannot be ignorant at any other Marke A good Bow is knowne as good counsaile is knowne by the end and profit we receiue by it yet both the Bow and good counsaile may be made better or worse by the well or ill handling of them as experience teacheth vs And as a man both must and will take counsaile of a wise and honest man though he see not the end of it So must an Archer of necessity trust an honest good Bowyer for a Bow before he know the proofe of it And as a wise man will store vp counsaile before hand to preuent future euils so a good Archer should euer haue three or foure Bowes before hand least sodaine want might vndoe his pleasure Now that you may escape general mistaking in the election of your Bow I will giue you some Rules and Notions which if you forget not shall preuent many mistakings If you come into a Shop and finde a Bow that is small long heavie and strong lying streight not winding not marr'd with Windshake Knot-gall Wenne Fret or pinch then buy the Bow from my warrant the best colour of a Bow that I finde is when the Backe and the belly in working be much what after one manner for such oftentimes in wearing proue like Virgin waxe or Gold hauing a fine long graine from one end of the Bow to the other for a short graine though it proue well sometimes yet they are for the most part very brittle Touching the making of the Bow I will not greatly meddle least I should be found to intrude vpon another mans Occupation in which I haue no skill and so like the Cobler goe beyond my Latchet Onely I would desire all Bowyers to feason theyr Staues well to worke and sinke them well to giue them heats conuenient and Tyllering plenty For thereby they shall both get themselues a good name and a good name increaseth profit and also bring a singular commoditie to the whole Kingdome If any man offend in this poynt I am perswaded they are onely those young Iourneymen which labor more to make many Bowes speedily for gaine sake then diligently to make good Bowes for theryr credit sake cleane forgetting this Prouerbe Soone enough if well enough wherewith euery honest Tradsman should as with a Rule measure his worke hee that is a Iourney man rideth vpō another mans horse if he ride an honest pace no man will disallow him But if hee ride post or beyond discretion both he that oweth the Horse and he that after shall buy the Horse may peraduenture haue cause to curse him neither is this fault confined to any one place but I feare too generally dispeirst in diuers parts of the Kingdome to the great hure of that poore remnant of Archers which yet flourish and to the great hinderance of the Kings seruice if euer the vertue of that Weapon shall be reuiued For belieue it as a maxime that the Bow can neuer be made of too good wood nor yet too well seasoned or truly made with heatings and tyllerings neither the Shaft of too good wood or too thorowly wrought with the best Pinion feathers that can be gotten especially when a man therwith is to serue his Prince defend his Country and saue himselfe from his Enemie But to returne againe to the true knowledge of a well Shooting Bow you are to vnderstand that eeuery Bow is made either of a Bough a Plant or of the Boole of the tree The Bough commonly is very knottie and full of pinnes weake of small pithe will soone follow the string and seldome weareth to any faire colour yet for Boyes and young beginners it may serue well enough The Plant doth many times proue exceeding well especially if it be of a good and cleane growth and for the pith of it is quicke enough of cast it will ply and bowe farre before it breake as all other young things doe The Boole of the Tree is cleanest without Knots or Pins hauing a fast and hard wood by reason of his full growth strong and mighty of cast and is the best of all other for the Bow if the Staues be euen clouen and afterward well wrought not ouerthwart the wood but as the graine and streight growing of the wood leadeth a man or otherwise by all reason it must soone breake and that in many Shiuers These things are to be considered in the rough wood and when the Bowstaues be ouer-wrought and fashioned For in dressing and picking it vp for a Bow it is then too late to looke for it But yet in these poynts as I said before you must when