The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

The stringes were well ydight;

An hundred shefe of arrows good

With hedes burnish'd full bryght;

And every arrowe an ell longe,

With peacocke well ydight,

And nocked they were with white silk,

It was a semely syght.

And Chaucer, in his description of the "squyers yeomen," says,

And he was clad in cote and hode of grene,

A shefe of pecocke arrowes bryght and shene;