[N]eyther the love of theyr countrye, the feare of theyr enemyes, the avoydinge of punishment, nor the receyvinge of any profite that might come by it, could make them to be good archers: which be unapte and unfitte thereunto by Gods providence and nature.

Have you the pictures still? I asked. Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot.

The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands,

On view from the sixth century B.C. are two small Attic representations of kourai, dressed statues of maidens, said to represent the Athenian aristocracy in rites celebrating the goddess Athena.