(Royal MS. 14 Edw. IV) “A few words by way of appendage to this part of our subject may here be devoted to the subject of our engravings, representing the storming of a fort (Fig. 1251), the siege of [...]
A “butt” is an old name for a target used for longbow archery practice; the place where people practice to fire arrows is called an archery butts. The targets were usually placed on mounds of earth. [...]
A winged cupid, a naked boy with wings sprouting from his shoulder-blades, holds an arrow ready to fire. Where his arrow lands, someone will fall in love. I have included both a large size and smaller [...]
Cupid is watching a Frenchman practice his archery, shooting arrows at a heart on a pole. I think [the French] arrogant bunglers; and, in truth, the worst set of marks-men that ever tried cupid’s pati [...]
