106. _takel_, lit. 'implement' or 'implements'; here the set of arrows. For _takel_ in the sense of 'arrow,' see Rom. Rose, 1729, 1863. 'He knew well how to arrange his shooting-gear in a yeomanlike manner.' Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, bk. ii. c. 1. § 16, quotes a ballad in which Robin Hood proposes that each man who misses the mark shall lose 'his _takell_'; and one of the losers says--'Syr abbot, I deliver thee myne _arrowe_.' Fairholt (s. v. _Tackle_) quotes from A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood-- 'When they had theyr _bowes_ ibent, Their _tacles_ fedred fre.' In the Cursor Mundi, l. 3600, Isaac sends Esau to hunt, saying:--'Ga lok thi _tacle_ be puruaid.' Cotgrave gives--'_Tacle_, m. any (headed) shaft, or boult whose feathers be not waxed, but glued on.' Roquefort says the same. 107. The sense is--'His arrows did not present a draggled appearance owing to the feathers being crushed'; i. e. the feathers stood out erect and regularly, as necessary to secure for them a good flight. 109. _not-heed_, a head closely cut or cropped. Cf. 'To _Notte_ his haire, _comas recidere_'; Baret's Alvearie, 1580. Shakespeare has _not-pated_, i. e. crop-headed, 1 Henry IV, ii. 4. 78. Cooper's Thesaurus, 1565, has:--'_Tondere_, to cause his heare to be _notted_ or polled of a barbour'; also, 'to _notte_ his heare shorte'; also, '_Tonsus homo_, a man rounded, polled, or _notted_.' Cotgrave explains the F. _tonsure_ as 'a sheering, clipping, powling, _notting_, cutting, or paring round.' Florio, ed. 1598, explains Ital. _zucconare_ as 'to poule, to _nott_, to shave, or cut off one's haire,' and _zuccone_ as 'a shauen pate, a _notted_ poule.' And more illustrations might be adduced, as e.g. the explanation of _Nott-pated_ in Nares' Glossary. In later days the name of Roundhead came into use for a like reason. Cf. 'your _nott-headed_ country gentleman'; Chapman, The Widow's Tears, Act i. sc. 4. 110. 'He understood well all the usage of woodcraft.' 111. _bracer_, a guard for the arm used by archers to prevent the friction of the bow-string on the coat. It was made like a glove with a long leathern top, covering the fore-arm (Fairholt). See it described in Ascham's Toxophilus, ed. Arber, pp. 107, 108. Cf. E. _brace_. 112. For a description of 'sword and buckler play,' see Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, bk. iii. c. 6. § 22; Brand, Pop. Antiquities, ed. Ellis, ii. 400. 114. _Harneised_, equipped. 'A certain girdle, _harnessed_ with silver' is spoken of in Riley's Memorials of London, p. 399, with reference to the year 1376; cf. Riley's tr. of Liber Albus, p. 521. 'De j daggar harnisiat' xd.'; (1439) York Wills, iii. 96. 'De vj paribus cultellorum harnesiat' cum auricalco. xvjd.'; ibid. 'A dagger harnest with sylver'; id. i. 419. And see note to l. 104.