Note 76 — Chapter VI · THE HOWARDS AND THE SEYMOURS
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Surrey, in his metrical “Satire,” makes use of the same whimsical excuse for shooting with a bow through citizens’ windows. Says he:—
“This made me with a reckless brest, To wake thy sluggards with my bow; A figure of the Lord’s behest, Whose scourge for synne the Scriptures shew.”