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‘But in this there is nothing to bee abated, all their speech is legem 
pone, or else with their ill custome they will detaine thee.”—G. 
Minshul, Essays in Prison. 
“< Oremus,” from Lat. orare=to beg, here means making excuses 
for non-payment of debts. 
“« Presta quesumus”’=lend me, I pray. Compare Presfe=a loan, 
Pretoes=\oans, in Halliwell. A lender hates to heara man say Pres/a. 
The word ‘‘collects” is used here in its original meaning of 
short prayers; thus the prayers before the Epistle and Gospel in 
the Prayer Book are called Collects, as containing briefly the 
lessons of the Epistle and Gospel. 
10. 30. ‘‘ Nor put to thy hand,” etc.; that is, do not meddle in 
the business of other people, and be careful whom you assist, lest 
by being too free and generous you yourself may be put to incon- 
venience. Ray gives: ‘‘ Put not thy hand between the bark and 
the tree,” that is, do not meddle in family affairs. 
10. 32. e¢ seg. Tusser here, while acknowledging the necessity 
and advantages of the practice of ‘‘giving credit” in business, im- 
presses strongly upon his readers the dishonesty and danger of 
promiscuous borrowing and lending, either to relations or friends, 
winding up with the advice never to trust a man who has once 
broken his engagements, without a surety, and never to lend a 
second time to a man who is angry with you for asking for payment 
of what he already owes. 
10. 35. ‘‘ The foole at the bottom, the wise at the brim;” re- 
ferring to the proverb, “‘ Better spare at brim than at bottom,” that 
is, ‘‘ Better be frugal in youth, than be reduced to the necessity of 
being saving in age.” Ray also gives another proverb of a similar 
character, ‘‘’Tis too late to spare when the bottom is dry.” ‘Sera 
in fundo parsimonia.”’—Seneca, Epist. i. 
10. 36. ‘‘ Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum.” Cf. Bar- 
bour’s Bruce, ed. Skeat, p. 612. 
10. 39. ‘‘Stands thee vpon.” Compare Shakspere, King Richard 
II. Act ii. sc. 3, 138: ‘‘Z¢ stands your grace upon to do him right;”’ 
and, “« Tt stands me much wzfon, 
To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.”—Richard 
nih Act iv. Sc..2, 59: 
10. 45. “‘Jankin and Jenikin” are only names for servants in 
general. 
10. 46. ‘‘ The proverb says, and who'd a proverb cross ? 
That stones, when rolling, gather little moss.”—Vade 
Mecum for Malt Worms, 1720, p. 6 (part 2). See also Ray’s Pro- 
verbs. Cf. ‘‘ On the stone that styll doth turne about, 
There groweth no mosse.”’—Sir T. Wiat, ‘“‘ How to 
use the Court,” 1. 4. A similar proverb occurs in Piers Plowman, 
A Text, Passus x. l. 101: ‘‘ Selden moseth the marbel-ston that 
men ofte treden.” Cf. also, ‘‘Syldon mossyth the stone pat oftyn 
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