_Mark_; attended with a _Knowing Judgment_, to Understand the distance
of Ground, and in what compass his _Arrow_ must Fly, and to take the
true Advantage of a Side-Wind; and a Dexterity to give his _Shaft_ a
sharp strong and sudden Loose, and without hanging on the string, to
draw his _Arrow_ close to the Head, and in an instant deliver it.

_Secondly_, He must observe a _Decorum_ in his standing Posture, that
his Body be fair, comely, and upright; his left Foot a convenient stride
before his right, with both his Hams stiff, his left Arm holding his
_Bow_ in the midst, stretch'd out streight; and with his three
Fore-Fingers and Thumb of his right-hand, draw the string to his right
Ear, the Notch of his _Arrow_ resting between his fore and long Fingers
of his Right-Hand, and the _Steel_ of his _Arrow_ below the _Feathers_
upon the middle _Knuckle_ of his fore-finger, on his Left-Hand, drawing
it up close, as abovesaid.

The _Cross-Bow_ (as I said in the Introduction to this _Treatise_) is of
equal Benefit and Pleasure with the _Long-Bow_, when through an
imbecillity in the _Arm_ or _Back_, that will not be a suitable
Recreation: This _Bow_ must be made of the same Wood with the other, for
_Gafel_ carried upon a string, and the other end being placed in a Rest,
furnish your self with strong and heavy _Arrows_, suitable to your
_Bows_ strength, and all the foregoing _Marks_, may afford you an equal
Delight with the Former; but especially for Persons that have the
unhappiness of looking asquint, it is an excellent Disposer of the
sight, to a direct Line, and helps that _Watermans_ quality of _Looking
one way, and Rowing another_. Thus much shall suffice for _Shooting_.

Of Bowling,

This is a Recreation of an Ancient Institution, the _Lydians_ being
thought to have been the first Inventors of _Sphaeromachia_, which
signifies _Bowling_, as well as _Tennis-Playing_; besides these they
instituted several other Games, as the _Dice_, _Tables_, _Cards_, &c.
Necessity, and Hunger enforcing them to that Ingenuity, as _Persius_
well observes, _Artis Magister, Ingenijque largitor Venter_: For that
Country being Oppressed with a great Dearth and Famine, in the time of
_Atis_, one of the Progenitors of _Omphale_, they Devised these Games,
that every second day playing at them, they might beguile their Hungry
Bellies, and drive away the Tediousness of the Famine. And indeed,
according to its Original institution, of infini