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very hardlie. For beside that in the measuring of ten quarters, for 
the most part they lose one through the iniquitie of the bushell 
(such is the greedinesse of the appointed receiuers thereof), fault 
is found also with the goodnesse and cleannesse of the graine. 
Wherby some peece of monie must needs passe vnto their purses to 
stop their mouths withall, or else my lord will not like of the 
corne: ‘Thou are worthie to loose thy lease, etc.’ Or if it be 
cheaper in the market, than the rate allowed for it is in their rents, 
then must they paie monie, and no corne, which is no small 
extremitie.”—Harrison, part i. p. 301. 
10. 15. “In this quatrain all the later editions of our author 
read uniformly mzsers for michers (thieves or pilferers). What kind 
of mzsers ‘unthriftiness’ would make never seems to have been con- 
sidered. ‘Careless and rash’ is a gallicism for carelessness and 
rashness.,—M. ‘‘ Mychare, capax, cleps, furunculus.’—Prompt. 
Parv. 
“« Mychers, hedge crepers, fylloks and lushes, 
That. all the somer kepe dyches and bushes.’”—The 
Hyeway to the Spytell House, ed. Atterson, ii. 11. See also Town- 
ley Mysteries, pp. 216, 308. ‘‘ Caqueraffe, a base micher, scurvie 
hagler, lowsie dodger, etc. Cagueduc, a niggard, muicher, etc.”— 
Cotgrave. 
10. 17. ‘ Make hunger thy sauce.” This is the proverb “hunger 
is the best sauce,” which is reckoned amongst the aphorisms of 
Socrates: ‘Optimum cibi condimentum fames, sitis potus.”— 
Cicero, De Finibus, Bk. II. 
10. 19. ‘‘ Mastive, Bandog, Molossus.’—Baret’s Alvearie, 1580. 
“The tie-dog or band-dog, so called bicause manie of them are 
tied up in chaines and strong bonds, in the daie time, for dooing 
hurt abroad, which is an huge dog, stubborne, ouglie, eager, bur- 
thenous of bodie (and therefore but of little swiftnesse), terrible 
and fearfull to behold, and oftentimes more fierce and fell than anie 
Archadian or Corsican cur. . . . . They take also their name of 
the word ‘mase’ and ‘theefe’ (or ‘master theefe’ if you will), bicause 
they often stound and put such persons to their shifts in townes 
and villages, and are the principall causes of their apprehension and 
taking.”—Harrison, Descrip. of England, part ii. pp. 44-5. ‘‘We 
han great Bandogs will teare their skins.”—Spenser, Shep. Cal. 
September. 
10. 20. ‘The credite of maister,” etc. If servants are allowed 
the credit or trust, which should only be allowed to their master 
and mistress, much trouble will be the result. 
10. 21. ‘‘ Be to count ye wote what,” that is, nothing to signify, 
of little importance. 
10. 22. “So, twentie lode bushes,” etc. So, without proper 
management, twenty loads of bushes may be so wasted as only to 
serve for the stopping of a single gap. 
