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(Plath and) Hughes'...Thanks for that idea Bridget (one of the things I love about this board, the additional stimulation to go LIU!). This wasn't actually what I had in mind; nor, come to that was shanks' wonderfully OTT spiel  quite what I had thought of as a post-modernist postcard, which I was considering a simple email... I shall go and look up some more Hughes - others may like to try googling Yeats?
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Whose quarrels frequently led to poetry?Robin Hood's. Having said which I can't think of any poems about Robin Hood. 
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Aw c'mon on, shona, surely you remember
"Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen …"?
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paulB - beat me to it!:
..... steals from the rich, gives to the poor ...
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get real, guys! you know perfectly well that was 'dennis more, dennis more, riding through the glen...'
"Give me all your lupins!"
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Qua(rrels of people who travel by) trains
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Give me all your lupins"In a bunch, in a bunch!" We need our Everything about Monty Python reference thread again, don't we? Thanks for that, folks. Classic poetry indeed courtesy of the Hooded Man.  ...and of course we haven't even touched on Walt Disney or 'Robin of Sherwood'. Eek!
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I thought that quarrels were only used in cross-bows, which are a mechanistic perversion of archery that Sir R.Hood would surely have eschewed? (I may be wrong, of course - it really isn't my period, says he hiding behind the historian's usual escape clause )
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I thought that quarrels were only used in cross-bows
Yes and no by the looks of it, Rhub, depending on your interpretation of especially (i.e. 'exclusively' or 'in particular')! -
Main Entry: quar·rel
Pronunciation: 'kwor(-&)l, 'kwär(-&)l
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, square-headed arrow, building stone, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin quadrellum, diminutive of Latin quadrum square
Date: 13th century
: a square-headed bolt or arrow especially for a crossbow
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I tried not to get into the quarrel-crossbow idea to begin with (primarily because I couldn't think of a clever enough line), but on this one I am pretty much on Rhuby's side.
1. I have never heard of a quarrel being used in a long bow (or any of the other simple, hand-drawn bows).
2. The especially may simply refer to the idea that certain types of siege engines also used quarrels/bolts. It need not be implying the use of them in longbows.
Now here's the thing: we have crossbows and longbows, but do we have a term for bows that are neither (old style double recurved bows, Japanese assymetrical bows, short bows etc)?
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