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Toxophilus 1545"   diuerfe men [to] loke at theyr marke diuerfe
wayes: yet they al lede a mans hand to fhoote ftreight yf
nothyng els floppe. So that cumlyneffe is the only iudge of Deft
lokyng at the marke. Some men wonder why in calling a mans eye
at ye marke, the hand mould go flreyght. Surely ye he confydered
the nature of a mans eye, he wolde not wonder at it: For this I
am certayne of, that no feiuaunt to hys mayfter, no chylde to
hys father is fo obedient, as euerye ioynte and pece of the ,
body is to do what foeuer the eye biddes. The eye is the guide,
the ruler and the fuccourer of al the other partes. The hande,
the foote and other members dare do nothynge without the eye, as
doth appere on the night and darke corners. The eye is the very
tonge wherwith wyt and reafon doth fpeke to euery parte of the
body, and the wyt doth not fo fone fignifye a thynge by the eye,
as euery parte