The first of these somewhat resembled one
Menelaus, mentioned by Zosimus, lib. 2. who nocking three arrowes,
& shooting them all at once, would strike three seuerall persons,
and might haue deserued a double stipend in the graund Signiors gard,
where the one halfe of his archers are left-handed, that they may
not turne their taile to their Sultan while they draw. The other may
in some sort compare with that Auo, reported by Saxo Gramaticus,
for so good a markman, as with one arrow he claue the firing of his
aduersaries bowe, the second he fixed betweene his fingers, and with
the third strooke his shaft which he was nocking: or with that
exploit of the fathers piercing an apple on his sonnes head,
attributed by the same Saxo, to one Toko a Dane: and by the Switzers
histories, to Guillaum Tell, the chiefe occasioner, and part-author
of their libertie.
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Hurling taketh his denomination from throwing of the ball, and is of
two sorts, in the East parts of Cornwall, to goales, and in the West,
to the countrey.
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