I am sorry you are so bad an Archer,

to shoote at Buts when you shou'd use prick - shafts; short shooting will loose ye the game. Rowley, Match at Midnight, ii. 1. pricks hot (prik's hot), n. A bowshot; the space between an archer and the mark. Davies . The tents, as I noted them, were divided into four several orders and rewes [rows] lying east and west, and a pricks hot asunder. Patten (Arber's Eng. Garner, III. 99). pricksongt (prik'sông), n. [ prick + song .] 1. Written music as distinguished from that which is extemporaneous. He fights as you sing prick song , keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom. Shak ., R. and J., ii. 4. 21. I can sing prick song , lady, at first sight. Chapman , Bu y D'Ambois, i. 1. 2. A descant or counterpoint as distinguished from a cantus firm us; contrapuntal music in general. But yet, as I would have this sort of music decay among scholars, even so do I wish, from the bottom of my heart, that the laudable custom of England to teach children their plain song and prick - song were not so decayed throughout all the realm as it is.