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2^Q os Exercise os the Body.
cunning,that let a Boy a good di (lance ofs hold uphS*
hand, and stretch his fingers abroad, he would (huoe
thorow the spaces without touching the Boyes hand,
or any finger.
And Commodiu (saith HerodianJhad so good an aim$
that he would fix on the brow os a Deer two lhaft6 as
evenly ,and spreading in distance, as if they had been
his own horns.
But sor the further excellence of this Exercise of
Shooting, I rtfer you to that excellent Book of Mr.
Afcbamsj intituled loxopbi/ui, wherein you shallfinde
whatsoever is requisite to be know of a conipleat Ar-
cher.
Hawking and Huntingyare recreations very commen-
dable and befitting a Noble or Gentleman to exercise %
Hunting especially,which Xenophon commendeth to his
Cjrut) calling it a gift of the gods, bellowed fir/} upon
Chiron for his uprightnesse in doing Jurtice, and by
him taught unto the old Heroes and Piinces;hy whose
Tertue and prowesse(asenabled by this exercise)their
Councries were defended, their subje£ts and innocents
prelerved, Jurtice maintained. For theie is no one
exerc se that enableth the body more for the War,than
Hunting, by teaching you to endure heat, cold, hun-
ger, thirst,to rise early,watch late,lie and faie hardly s
and Eusebius is of opinion,that wild hearts were of pur-
pose created by God,that men by chasing and encoun-
tring them, might be fitted and enabled for warlike
exercises. Hereupon Alexander^ sjm, and the ©Id
Kings of Pe fay employed themseives exceeding much
hertin, not to purchase Vtnison and purvey for the
belly,but to maintain their streng; h,and prcserve their
health, by encreahngand rtirrirtg up the< natural heat
Lmgm, lib- %. within,which ssoth and sitting still wastesand decayes:
Epil} 59; to harden the bodies by labour against the enemy 5 and
J^etcetmin withal,to search out the natures of wild heart?, which
F’/sTrs ^ known, rhey might leave the same recorded to their
soft. Jell, z.cap, parity* Andthefamous Physitian g^ercetnnizbo\&
2^Q os Exercise os the Body.
cunning,that let a Boy a good di (lance ofs hold uphS*
hand, and stretch his fingers abroad, he would (huoe
thorow the spaces without touching the Boyes hand,
or any finger.
And Commodiu (saith HerodianJhad so good an aim$
that he would fix on the brow os a Deer two lhaft6 as
evenly ,and spreading in distance, as if they had been
his own horns.
But sor the further excellence of this Exercise of
Shooting, I rtfer you to that excellent Book of Mr.
Afcbamsj intituled loxopbi/ui, wherein you shallfinde
whatsoever is requisite to be know of a conipleat Ar-
cher.
Hawking and Huntingyare recreations very commen-
dable and befitting a Noble or Gentleman to exercise %
Hunting especially,which Xenophon commendeth to his
Cjrut) calling it a gift of the gods, bellowed fir/} upon
Chiron for his uprightnesse in doing Jurtice, and by
him taught unto the old Heroes and Piinces;hy whose
Tertue and prowesse(asenabled by this exercise)their
Councries were defended, their subje£ts and innocents
prelerved, Jurtice maintained. For theie is no one
exerc se that enableth the body more for the War,than
Hunting, by teaching you to endure heat, cold, hun-
ger, thirst,to rise early,watch late,lie and faie hardly s
and Eusebius is of opinion,that wild hearts were of pur-
pose created by God,that men by chasing and encoun-
tring them, might be fitted and enabled for warlike
exercises. Hereupon Alexander^ sjm, and the ©Id
Kings of Pe fay employed themseives exceeding much
hertin, not to purchase Vtnison and purvey for the
belly,but to maintain their streng; h,and prcserve their
health, by encreahngand rtirrirtg up the< natural heat
Lmgm, lib- %. within,which ssoth and sitting still wastesand decayes:
Epil} 59; to harden the bodies by labour against the enemy 5 and
J^etcetmin withal,to search out the natures of wild heart?, which
F’/sTrs ^ known, rhey might leave the same recorded to their
soft. Jell, z.cap, parity* Andthefamous Physitian g^ercetnnizbo\&