NOPE AND TLEUSTRATIONS. 
* * With the exception of the first five Notes, the references are to Chapters and 
Stanzas; thus ‘1. 1.” means Chapter 1. Stanza 1. 
(Notes signed M. are from Dr. Mavor’s edition of 1812, and those signed T. R. 
are from Hilman’s 7usser Redivivus, 1710.) 
Page 2, stanza 1. “Er in aught be begun;” that is, before a 
beginning be made in anything, the verb being used impersonally. 
2. The directions which are stated briefly in the Abstract will be 
found in the Month’s Husbandry in the stanza bearing the same 
number. 
3. ‘‘ Pilcrowe,” the mark of a new paragraph in printing (J). A 
corruption of paragraph, through parcraft, pilcraft, to pilcrow. 
“Paragrapha, pylcraft in wrytynge.’—Medulla Gramm. ‘“‘ Para- 
graphus, Anglice a pargrafte in wrytynge.”—Ortus. ‘‘Paragraphe or 
Pillcrow, a full sentence, head or title.’”—Cotgrave. ‘‘ A Pilkcrow, 
vide Paragraph.”—Gouldman. 
Page 3, col. z, line 2 from bottom. ‘‘Crosserowe.” ‘‘ Shee that 
knowes where Christes crosse stands, will neuer forget where great 
A dwells.’—Tom Tell-Trothe’s New Year’s Gift (New Shakspere 
Soc. ed. Furnivall), p. 33. ‘* The Christs-crosse-row or Horne- 
booke, wherein a child learnes it.”—-Cotgrave. The alphabet was 
called the Chris/-cross-row, some say because a cross was prefixed 
to the alphabet in the old primers; but as probably from a super- 
stitious custom of writing the alphabet in the form of a cross asa 
charm. ‘This was even solemnly practised by the Bishop in the 
consecration of a church. See Picart’s Relig. Ceremonies, vol. 1. 
p- 131.—Nares. 
Page 4, col. z, line 45. ‘“‘A medicine for the cowlaske.” In 
Sloane MS. 1585, f. 152, will be found a recipe for the cure of 
diarrhoea, the components of which appear to be the yolk of a new- 
laid egg, honey, and fine salt. 
1.1. In the edition of 1557, the first stanza of the Epistle reads 
somewhat differently ; see p. 220. 
1. 1. “ Time trieth the troth,” in Latin ‘‘ Veritas temporis filia,” 
occurs in Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557, repr. 1867, p. 221.—Hazlitt’s 
English Proverbs. 
1. 2. ‘‘Vnlesse mischance mischanceth me”=unless fortune is 
