And every arrowe an ell longe,
With peacocke well ydight,
And rocked they were with white silk,
It was a semely sight.”
And Chaucer, in the description of the squyer’s yeoman, says:--
“And he was clad in cote and hode of greene;
A sheafe of peacocke arrows bryght and shene,
Under his belt he bare full thriftely,
Well coude he dresse his tackle yemanly:
His arrowes drouped not with fethers lowe,