Excerpt from Shooting: A PoemOf old, ere imitative mortals {trove To mate the fiery bolts of thuud'ring Jove, Train'd by fuperior care, the elafiic yew, With finewy arm, our Engloifh bowmen drew The warlike art exulting albion faw Proteéted by the fofi'ring hand of law, Attentive fenates watch'd, with anxious zeal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.