Toxophilus, Notes for the First Book of The School of Shooting
The notes are from the Rev. Dr. Giles edition of Toxophilus, 1864-1865.
[1] | So seriously. |
[2] | In order to it. |
[3] | Probably is speciously |
[4] | Faule or fall, is produce |
[5] | Trick or tricksy, is neat, nice, elegant. |
[6] | Cast is warped. The word is still used by artificers. |
[7] | If this line was so translated when this treatise was first written, in 1545, it is the oldest English hexameter that I remember. |
[8] | Honesty is honour. |
[9] | The Gnat of Virgil, and the Nut of Ovid. |
[10] | Porcupine |
[11] | These lines are written in imitation of the Senarius. |
[12] | Foumards, by others called fumarts, are, I believe, what we now call more commonly Stoats. |
[13] | I doubt whether our author has not mistaken the sense of Chaucer I rather take lesings to be lies than losses. |
[14] | War is an old word, still used in some counties for worse; and Ascham. supposes that war or hostility is so named, because it is war or worse than peace. |
[15] | Atonement is Union, or the act of setting at one. |
[16] | First edition has for. |
[17] | This paragraph is left out in the modern editions of the Toxophilus. |
[18] | This parenthesis is omitted in the modern editions |
[19] | A jack is a coat of mail. |
[20] | The word lipe I never saw, and know not whether I understand it: if it be the same as leap, it may mean a jerk or sudden motion. |
[22] | The statute. |
[21] | Favouredly is, I suppose, plausibly. |
[23] | The prick, at other times called the white, is the white spot or point in the midst of the mark. |
[24] | Here is an example of the Socratic method of disputation, which, by repeated interrogations, confutes the opponent out of his own answers. |
[25] | Sadness is seriousness, or earnest. First edition has "go about it : but in good sadness." |
[26] | So importunately. |