242 Notes and Illustrations. 
ys tornyd and wende.”—‘‘ How the good wife taught her daughter,” 
pr. in Q. Elizabeth’s Achademy, ed. Furnivall, p. 39. In the Verses 
on Lord Burghley’s Crest (printed in Thynne’s Animaduersions, 
Chaucer Soc. ed. Furnivall), stanza 32, we read: 
“And prouerbe olde was not deuis’d in veyne, 
That ‘roolinge stone doth neuer gather mosse’ ; 
Who lightly leaves in myddest of all his peine, 
His former labor frustrates with his losse ; 
But who continues as he did begynne, 
Withe equall course the pointed goale doth wynne.” 
See also chapt. 77. 20, p. 170. 
10. 48. “Of all [the lawyers] that euer I knew in Essex, Denis 
and Mainford excelled, till John of Ludlow, alias Mason, came in 
place, vnto whome in comparison they two were but children: 
for this last in lesse than three or foure yeares, did bring one man 
(among manie else-where in other places) almost to extreame 
miserie (if beggerie be the vttermost) that before he had the 
shauing of his beard, was valued at two hundred pounds (I speake 
with the least) and finallie feeling that he had not sufficient wher- 
with to susteine himselfe and his familie, and also to satisfie that 
greedie rauenour, which still called vpon him for new fees, he went 
to bed, and within foure daies made an end of his wofull life, euen 
with caré and pensiuenesse. After his death also he so handled 
his sonne, that there was neuer sheepe shorne in Maie, so neere 
clipped of his fleece present, as he was of manie to come: so that 
he was compelled to let awaie his land, bicause his cattell and 
stocke were consumed, and he no longer able to occupie the 
ground.’’—Harrison, Descript. of Eng. part i. pp. 206-7. 
“Daw” =a chattering fool. See Peacock’s Glossary (Eng. Dial. 
S0c.). 
10. 49. From this stanza it would seem that sportsmen did not 
hesitate to trespass on the lands of others in former days any more 
than at present, but in such cases Tusser recommends the “‘ mild 
answer which turneth away wrath,” and sets out the advantages of 
courteousness and respect to one’s superiors. 
10. 51. ‘“‘ That flesh might be more plentifull and better cheaper, 
two daies in the weeke, that is Fryday and Saturday, are specially 
appointed to fish, and now of late yeares, by the prouidence of our 
prudent Princesse, Elizabeth, the Wednesday also is in a manner re- 
strained to the same order, not for any religion or holinesse sup- 
posed to be in the eating of fish rather than of flesh, but onely for 
the ciuill policie as I haue said. That as God hath created both 
for man’s use, so both being used or refrained at certaine seasons, 
might by that entercourse be more abundant. And no doubt, if all 
daies appointed for that purpose were duly obserued, but that flesh 
and fish both would be much more plentifull, and beare lesse price 
than they doe. For accounting the Lent season, and all fasting 
