Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
whiche weren seuen hundrid strongeste men, fiytynge so with þe lefthond as with þe riythond, and castynge so stoonus with slyngis at a certeyn thing, þat þei myyten smyte also an heer, and þe strook of þe stoon schulde not be borun in to þe toþer part.