Poetical allusions Chaucer, Spenser 159 



mentioned which are useful in affording food for 

 swine. 



Chaucer 1 has the following lines on the method 

 of shooting : 



' T enlarge his breath (large breath in armes needful), 

 Or else by wrestling to wex strong and heedful, 

 Or his stiffe armes to stretch with eughen bow, 

 And manly legs still passing to and fro.' 



Spenser 2 thus alludes to archery : 



' Long he them bore above the subject plaine, 

 So far as eughen bow a shaft may send, 

 Till struggling strong did him at last constraine 

 To let them downe before his flightes end.' 



One of the earliest English writers on this 

 subject was Roger Ascham, who published in 1 545 

 his Toxophilus, from which quotations will be found 

 in the chapter on bows. 



Chaucer also refers to the yew among other 

 trees : 3 



' With many high lorer and pyn 

 Was renged clene all that gardyn ; 

 With cipres and with oliveres, 

 Of which that nigh no plente here is, 

 There were elmes grete and stronge, 

 Maples, asshe, ook, asp, planes longe, 

 Fyn ew, popler and lindes faire, 

 And other trees ful many a payre.' 



Mr. Francis T. Palgrave, in his charming Land- 



1 Mother HubbanVs Tale. 2 Faerie Queene, B. i. c. xi. 19 ; i. 8, 9. 



3 Romaunt of the Rose. 



