An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)
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_Falconet_ 2 14 2 1-1/4
_Falcon_ 2-1/2 16 2-1/2 2-1/4
_Minion_ 4-1/2 17 4-1/2 3
_Sacre._ 5 18 5 3-1/4
_Demi-Culverin_ 9 20 9 4
_Culverin_ 18 25 18 5-1/4
_Demi-Cannon_ 30 38 28 6-3/4
_Cannon_ 60 20 44 7-3/4
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_Basilisk_ 60 21 60 8-1/4
As for the Armouries of some of the Nobility (whereof I also have seen
a part), they are so well furnished, that within some one Baron's
custody, I have seen three score or a hundred corslets at once; besides
calivers, hand-guns, bows, sheafs of arrows, pikes, bills, pole-axes,
flasks, touch-boxes, targets, &c.: the very sight whereof appalled my
courage.
* * * * *
Seldom shall you see any of my countrymen, above eighteen or twenty
years old, to go without a dagger at the least, at his back or by his
side; although they be aged burgesses or magistrates of any city who,
in appearance, are most exempt from brabling and contention.
Our Nobility commonly wear swords or rapiers, with their daggers; as
doth every common serving man also that followeth his lord and master.
* * * * *
Finally, no man travelleth by the way, without his sword or some such
weapon, with us; except the Minister, who commonly weareth none at all,
unless it be a dagger or hanger at his side.
[Illustration]
_ALCILIA:_
_PHILOPARTHEN's_
_Loving Folly._
_Non Deus (ut perhibent) amor est, sed_
_amaror, et error._
[Illustration]
AT LONDON.
_Printed by R. R. for William Mattes,_
dwelling in Fleet street, at the sign of the
_Hand and Plough._
1595.
[The only copy of the 1595 edition, at present known, is in the
City Library, at Hamburg.
It was recovered, and reprinted in 1875 by Herr WILHELM WAGNER,
Ph.D., in Vol. X. of the _Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
Jahrbuch_; copies of this particular text being also separately
printed.
A limited Subscription edition, of fifty-one copies, was printed by
Rev. A. B. GROSART, LL.D., F.S.A., of Blackburn, in 1879: with a
fresh collation of the text by B. S. LEESON, Esq., of Hamburg.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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