Yseldon: a Perambulation of Islington
Yseldon: a Perambulation of Islington
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p. 8. n. 12. (dorso.) Finsbury Fields had various lengths marked out in them by wooden marks and rovers, the latter being of stone, varying from one to near four feet in heigh tb, marked distances from nine score to near twenty-score yards, and the archer's division of the Artillery Company were, till the year 1791, in the full exercise of the privilege of causing all obstructions, that prevented one mark being seen from the other, to be removed.
Shooting at these distances or lengths was calle...d Roving, to distinguish it from shoot- ing " round compass," viz., at a standing mark, as at butts or target, and the marks or stones were termed rovers; hence " to shoot at rovers," became a metaphor for any ran- dom or experimental trial of wit in discourse or conversation, as Butler in his Eudibras represents Widow Thomson, saying, " Love's arrows are but shot at rovers, Though all they shoot, they turn to lovers." Part HI., Canto L, line 941.
Addison, in his Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Medals, Dial.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
p. 8. n. 12. (dorso.) Finsbury Fields had various lengths marked out in them by wooden marks and rovers, the latter being of stone, varying from one to near four feet in heigh tb, marked distances from nine score to near twenty-score yards, and the archer's division of the Artillery Company were, till the year 1791, in the full exercise of the privilege of causing all obstructions, that prevented one mark being seen from the other, to be removed.
Shooting at these distances or lengths was calle...d Roving, to distinguish it from shoot- ing " round compass," viz., at a standing mark, as at butts or target, and the marks or stones were termed rovers; hence " to shoot at rovers," became a metaphor for any ran- dom or experimental trial of wit in discourse or conversation, as Butler in his Eudibras represents Widow Thomson, saying, " Love's arrows are but shot at rovers, Though all they shoot, they turn to lovers." Part HI., Canto L, line 941.
Addison, in his Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Medals, Dial.
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