Clouting a yard of arrow through your inwards

Probably my favorite line from The Black Arrow comes early:

” . . . the man that ye have dispossessed and beaten is but the angrier, and some day . . . he will up with his bow and clout me a yard of arrow through your inwards.”

This could be a summary of Blowback by Chalmers Johnson, for one thing. I wish American foreign policy experts would beware the yard of arrow once in awhile.

(Robert Louis Stevenson, in this book, uses a lot of this odd reflexive “me” — is it authentic? I have no idea, but it sounds good.) (And the word “an” used for “if,” also; there’s a lot of that. I’d heard it before, somewhere, and my trusty brain remembered it, fortunately.)