'thy countenance shakes spears'*Gabriel Harvey in G. Harveil gratulationum Valdensium libri quatuourr (1578)--dedicated to the 17th Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere)--in which Harvey tells him to throw away his feeble pen and prepare to defend his country.
*Translated as 'your glance shoots arrows' by Alan Nelson.
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