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46. 13. The Mayweed (Axsthemts cotula) is common in corn-fields 
and hedgerows. ‘ May-weed or stinking camomile.’”—T. R. ‘ Re- 
sembling cammomil but of a stinking savour and odious to bees.” 
Coles’ Dict. 1676. 
Cockle or Coky/ was used by Wycliffe and other old writers in 
the sense of a weed generally, but in later works has been confined 
to the gzth or corn-pink. 
46. 16. Our author’s meaning is, sow barley, oats and pease 
above furrows and harrow them in; while rye is best ploughed in 
with a shallow furrow. 
46. 21. ‘Without cost,” that is, on which no expense has been 
incurred. 
46. 24. Watering is necessary in dry seasons for what is fresh 
set or planted, but not for what is newly sown. 
46. 26. It is to be lamented, both on account of the health 
and the finances of the poor, that they are so much attached, either 
to solid food, or to watery infusions of tea. Herbs, pulse and roots 
might often supersede more expensive articles of diet. Spoonmeat, 
in this part of the island at least, is in no high request at this 
period, though it appears to have been indispensable formerly.—M. 
47. 20. ‘“‘There remaineth yet a third kinde of meats, which is 
neither fish nor flesh, commonly called whzte meats, as egges, milk, 
butter, cheese, which notwithstanding proceede and come of flesh, 
as egges from the henne, and milk from the cowe. Yet because 
they are not plainely flesh, they are permitted to be eaten upon the 
fish daies.’”—Cogan’s Haven of Health, ed. 1612, p. 149. 
<‘ But how soeuer this case standeth, whz/e meats, as milke, butter 
and cheese, which were neuer so deere as in my time, and woont 
to be accounted of as one of the chiefe staies throughout the 
Iland, are now reputed as foods appertinent onelie to the inferiour 
sort, whilest such as are more wealthie, doo feed vpon the flesh of 
all kinds of cattell accustomed to be eaten, all sorts of fish taken 
vpon our coasts and in our fresh rivers, and such diuersitie of wild 
and tame foules as are either bred in our Iland or brought ouer 
vnto vs from other countries of the maine.”—Harrison, Descript. of 
England, ed. Furnivall, Part I. p. 144. Wahzte meats in Lincoln 
now mean the flesh of lamb, veal, rabbits, chickens, pheasants, etc. 
48. 4. “Count best the best cheape”’: “ For it doth the buyer 
more credit and service.” —Ray. We still say “‘ Cheap and nasty;”’ 
and in the Towneley Mysteries, p. 102, there is the same sentiment : 
“Men say lyght chepe 
letherly for yeeldys,” 
equivalent to our English proverb: ‘‘ Light cheap, litter yield.” 
48. 7. It is always advisable to pay carpenters their fair wages, 
without any ailowance of chips, which is a great temptation for 
them to waste timber.—M. In hewing timber, if the workman 
hews square, the seller of the timber loses all the gain of the Wane 
