507) make
precisely
similar references.
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441.
In 1610 the place had become neglected, whereupon commissioners were
appointed to reduce it 'into such order and state for the archers as
they were in the beginning of the reign of King Henry VIII. ' (_Ibid. _
2. 109). See also Stow, _Survey_, ed. Thoms, p. 159.
Dekker (_Shomaker's Holiday_, _Wks. _ 1. 29) speaks of being
'turnd to a Turk, and set in Finsburie for boyes to shoot at',
and Nash (_Pierce Pennilesse_, _Wks. _ 2. 128) and Jonson (_Bart.
Fair_, _Wks. _ 4.
507) make precisely similar references. Master
Stephen in _Every Man in_ (_Wks. _ 1. 10) objects to keeping
company with the 'archers of Finsbury. ' Cf. also the elaborate
satire in _U. _ 62, (_Wks. _ 8. 409).
=3. 2. 45 to traine the youth=
=Of London, in the military truth. = Cf. _Underwoods_ 62:
Thou seed-plot of the war! that hast not spar'd
Powder or paper to bring up the youth
Of London, in the military truth.
Gifford believes these lines to be taken from a contemporary
posture-book, but there is no evidence of quotation in the case
of _Underwoods_.
In 1610 the place had become neglected, whereupon commissioners were
appointed to reduce it 'into such order and state for the archers as
they were in the beginning of the reign of King Henry VIII. ' (_Ibid. _
2. 109). See also Stow, _Survey_, ed. Thoms, p. 159.
Dekker (_Shomaker's Holiday_, _Wks. _ 1. 29) speaks of being
'turnd to a Turk, and set in Finsburie for boyes to shoot at',
and Nash (_Pierce Pennilesse_, _Wks. _ 2. 128) and Jonson (_Bart.
Fair_, _Wks. _ 4.
507) make precisely similar references. Master
Stephen in _Every Man in_ (_Wks. _ 1. 10) objects to keeping
company with the 'archers of Finsbury. ' Cf. also the elaborate
satire in _U. _ 62, (_Wks. _ 8. 409).
=3. 2. 45 to traine the youth=
=Of London, in the military truth. = Cf. _Underwoods_ 62:
Thou seed-plot of the war! that hast not spar'd
Powder or paper to bring up the youth
Of London, in the military truth.
Gifford believes these lines to be taken from a contemporary
posture-book, but there is no evidence of quotation in the case
of _Underwoods_.
