Robert Louis Stevenson`s Black Arrow

Part I - Prologue I had four blak arrows under my belt, Four for the greefs that I have felt, Four for the nombre of ill menne That have opressid me now and then. One is gone; one is wele sped; Old Apulyard is ded. One is Master Bennet Hatch, That burned Grimstone walls and thatch. One is for Sir Oliver Oates, That cut Sir Harry Shelton`s throat. Sir Daniel ye shull have the …

…s third name, probably given after his ancestors. The second is connected to the creation of the book, which was written, as it stands in the dedication, " for particular audience and (I may say) in rivalry with a particular author - Mr. Alfred R. Phillips ". Well one can say that books come to being in different ways. I really enjoyed the book and it is worth reading, when you have time and want to relax.