The " bows " were grouped in tens and hundreds.
They also make wooden gongs, or drums. They used to make wooden fishhooks, clubs, spears and bows.
It is further said that in some cases at least the English vessels were "bearded," that is to say, strengthened by iron bands across the bows for ramming, and that they sank many of the French.
The two diagrams are portions of reciprocal figures, so that Bows notation is applicable.
Finding it impossible to make himself fairly heard in the matter, Corneille (who had retired from his position among the "five poets") withdrew to Rouen and passed nearly three years in quiet there, perhaps revolving the opinions afterwards expressed in his three Discours and in the Examens of his plays, where he bows, somewhat as in the house of Rimmon, to "the rules."
