Finsbury Hero, Finsbury Fields, which Pepys thought 'very pleasant', had been kept open for the citizens to practise archery.

I have been assured by a credible witness, that two wild antelopes often used to come from their woods to the place where a more savage beast, Serajuddaulah, entertained himself with concerts, and that they listened to the strains with the appearance of pleasure, till the monster, in whose soul there was no music, shot one of them to display his archery."

we find it stated that "Artillery (artillérie) is a French term signifying Archery, as the king's bowyer is in that language styled artillier du roy; and from that nation the English seem to have learnt at least the cross-bow archery.

And now the archers shot, each man in turn, and the good folk never saw such archery as was done that day.

[-43-] The barbarians did not use archery and had not provided themselves beforehand with stones, not expecting to have any need of them.

He has sufficiently vindicated archery as an innocent, salutary, useful, and liberal diversion; and if his precepts are of no great use, he has only shown, by one example among many, how little the hand can derive from the mind, how little intelligence can conduce to dexterity.

This was done with a celerity and precision which dispersed the whole archery, who, having neither stakes nor other barrier to keep off the horse, nor long weapons to repel them, were cut down at pleasure, and almost without resistance.

"But ah!" cry the maidens, "what trust is in Love's Keeping holiday too, while he weareth his archery, tools of his trade?"