“And of Achilles for his queinte spere,

For he coude with it bothe hele and drere.”

“And of Achilles for his queinte spere, For he coude with it bothe hele and drere.”

And Shakespeare, in King Henry the Sixth , V i :⁠—

“Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles’ spear,

Is able with the change to kill and cure.”