The paine of pleasure describing in a perfect mirror, the miseries of man [by Anthony Munday] |
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Shooting, The thirteenth pleasure.
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Shooting, The thirteenth pleasure.
What
sporte it is to see an arrow flie,
A gallant archer cleanly draw his bowe?
In shooting off, againe how cunningly,
He hath his loose, in letting of it goe?
To nocke it sure, and draws it to the head:
And then flie out, hold straight, and strike it dead.
A gallant archer cleanly draw his bowe?
In shooting off, againe how cunningly,
He hath his loose, in letting of it goe?
To nocke it sure, and draws it to the head:
And then flie out, hold straight, and strike it dead.
With other termes that Archers long haue vsde,
As blow winde, stoupe, ah, downe the winde a bowe:
Tush, sayes another, he may be excusde,
Since the last marke, the winde doth greater grow.
At last he claps in the white suddainely,
Then oh well shot the standers by doe cry.
As blow winde, stoupe, ah, downe the winde a bowe:
Tush, sayes another, he may be excusde,
Since the last marke, the winde doth greater grow.
At last he claps in the white suddainely,
Then oh well shot the standers by doe cry.
And that one shoote, is euen enough to make,
Him sell his coate for store of bowe and shafts:
The cost whereof will make his hart to ake,
And make him draw but few delightfull drafts.
Therefore say I, in shooting the delight,
Dooth likewise breede with pleasure some despight.
Him sell his coate for store of bowe and shafts:
The cost whereof will make his hart to ake,
And make him draw but few delightfull drafts.
Therefore say I, in shooting the delight,
Dooth likewise breede with pleasure some despight.
I doo not speake particularly of all,
The harmes that hap vnto an archers purse:
As bow may breake, string cracke, and feathers fall,
With other haps, that makes them sweare and curse.
As when sometime there raines a suddaine showre,
That bowe and shafts may marre all in an howre.
The harmes that hap vnto an archers purse:
As bow may breake, string cracke, and feathers fall,
With other haps, that makes them sweare and curse.
As when sometime there raines a suddaine showre,
That bowe and shafts may marre all in an howre.
Therefore vse shooting as an exercise,
To passe the time, but loue it not too much:
Least with the sport you finde the costly price,
Doe make your hart such deare delights to grutch.
Therefore vse it, but as a pretie toy:
To passe the day, but count it not a ioy.
To passe the time, but loue it not too much:
Least with the sport you finde the costly price,
Doe make your hart such deare delights to grutch.
Therefore vse it, but as a pretie toy:
To passe the day, but count it not a ioy.
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