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Updated: May 6, 2025
A group of archers with their staves and quivers filed before him with complaints or requests, while half a dozen of the seniors gathered at his back and listened with grinning faces to his comments and rebukes. "Canst not string it?" he was saying to a young bowman. "Then surely the string is overshort or the stave overlong.
"I love her madly for she is perfect fair, * Complete in gravity and gracious way; Nor overtall nor overshort, the while * Too full for trousers are those hips that sway: Her shape is midmost 'twixt o'er small and tall; * Nor long to blame nor little to gainsay: O'erfall her anklets tresses black as night * Yet in her face resplends eternal day."
The daggers have a certain resemblance to the Malay kris, and the swords and halberds are generally leaf-shaped. But some features, as overshort tangs and unpierced loops, suggest that they were manufactured, not for service in battle but for ceremonial purposes, being thus mere survivals from an era when their originals were in actual use, and possibly those originals may have been of iron.
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