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unkind to me. ‘‘ Remaine abrode for euermore,” 7.e. be given to 
the writings of others. 
It is noticeable that though in the Author’s Epistle he spells his 
name, most probably for convenience sake, as Tussar, he on all 
other occasions spells it Tusser, which is no doubt correct. In the 
edition of 1557 the name is spelt correctly, although the corre- 
sponding line of the stanza commences with the letter a. See p.220. 
2. 6. “Like Iugurth, Prince of Numid.” Jugurtha, an illegiti- 
mate son of Mastanabal, after the death of Micipsa murdered his two 
sons and seized on the sovereignty of Numidia. War was declared 
against him by the Romans, and after some time Metellus drove 
him to such extremes that he was obliged to take refuge with his 
father-in-law, Bocchus, by whom he was given up to Marius, was 
carried in triumph to Rome, and finally starved to death. The 
history of the war against him is related in Sallust’s Bellum Jugurth- 
7nmuUm. 
““With losses so perfumid ;” 7.e. pervaded, thoroughly imbued ; 
we use zmbued nearly in the same way. 
2. 7. Harrison, in his Description of England (E.E.T. Soc. ed. 
Furnivall, part i. p. 241), gives a very bad character to the landlords 
of his day: ‘‘ What stocke of monie soeuer he [the farmer] gathereth 
and laieth vp in all his yeares, it is often seene, that the landlord 
will take such order with him for the same, when he renueth his 
lease, which is commonlie eight or six yeares before the old be 
expired (sith it is now growen almost to a custome, that if he come 
not to his lord so long before, another shall step in for a reuersion, 
and so defeat him out right) that it shall neuer trouble him more 
than the haire of his beard, when the barber hath washed and 
shaued it from his skin. And as they commend these, so (beside 
the decaie of house-keeping whereby the poore haue beene re- 
lieued) they speake also of three things that are growen to be verie 
grieuous vnto them, to wit, the inhansing of rents, latelie men- 
tioned; the dailie oppression of copiholders, whose lords seeke to 
bring their poore tenants almost into plaine seruitude and miserie, 
dailie deuising new meanes, and seeking vp all the old, how to cut 
them shorter and shorter, doubling, trebling, and now and then seuen 
times increasing their fines; driuing them also for euerie trifle to 
loose and forfeit their tenures, (by whom the greatest part of the 
realme dooth stand and is mainteined,) to the end they may fleece 
them yet more.” See also Norden’s Surveyor’s Dialogue, ed. 1607, 
bah i. 
The following curious prayer is in Edward the Sixth’s Liturgies : 
—‘‘ The earth is Thine, O Lord, and all that is contained therein, 
notwithstanding Thou hast given possession of it to the children of 
men, to pass over the time of their short pilgrimage in this vale of 
misery. We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy Spirit into the 
hearts of those that possess the grounds, pastures, and dwelling- 
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