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well that they medyll withall. If the podech be burned to, or the 
meate over rosted, we say ‘ the byshope has put his fote in the potte, 
or ‘ the byshope hath played the coke, because the byshopes burn who 
they lust, and whosoever displeaseth them.” — Quotation from 
Tyndale’s Obedyence of a Chrystene Man, 1528, p. 166, in Brockett, 
North Country Glossary, 1825, page 16. If we consider that these 
verses were written while the memory of the numbers who had 
suffered death at the stake for their religion was still fresh in the 
minds of the people, Mr. Skeat’s view, borne out, as it is, by the 
foregoing extract, certainly appears the more reasonable and 
probable. 
50. 11. ‘‘ Here reede”: we may take this as meaning either 
‘“‘here read,” or, adopting the older meaning of the word reede 
(A.S. r@d=advice, warning), as ‘“‘ hear my advice or warning.” 
50. 27. ‘‘ Take nothing to halues,” that is, do nothing by halves. 
50. 30. ‘Tell fagot and billet,” etc.; count your faggots and 
fire-wood, to prevent the boys and girls from pilfering it, so that 
when you come to fetch it you find ‘“‘a quarter be gone.” So also 
in the next stanza, watch the coal men filling the sacks, lest you 
should get short weight; and, when the coals are delivered, see the 
sacks opened, for fear the coal dealer and the carman should be 
‘two in a pack,’ or ‘harp on one string,’ and between them you 
be defrauded. 
51. 1. ‘Philip and Jacob,” that is, St. Philip and St. James’ 
Day, May 1st. ‘‘ When flocks were more uniform as to breed and 
management, lambs used to be separated from their dams on this 
day, for the purpose of tithing as well as milking.”-—M. ‘‘ Requiem 
eternam,” a portion of the Roman Catholic Service for the dead, 
hence ‘‘ least reguiem @lernam in winter they sing”’=lest they die 
in the winter from not having been allowed to become sufficiently 
strong before being taken from their dams, and thus being in- 
capable of enduring the severity of the weather. 
dl. 4. “ Barberlie handled,” that is, ‘‘ secundum artem, as a barber 
surgeon would do, by first cutting away extraneous substances, and 
then rubbing the part with dust.’—M. Tusser Redivivus calls the 
lumps of dirt and worms which gather on the wool under a sheep’s 
tail ‘‘ ¢reddles.” 
51. 6. During the summer season, hollow and decayed pollards 
in particular, or woodsere, cannot be lopped without danger. Ivy, 
however, is to be removed; or it will, by the closeness of its 
embraces, prevent trees from adding, that is, growing or increasing 
in size.—M. 
51. 8. The Thrasher serves the Cattle with fresh Straw, the Hogs 
with Risk (offal, corn and weeds, and short knotty straw).—T.R. 
(May). 
51. 10. ‘A weede hooke, a crotch, and a gloue.” Fitzherbert 
(Boke of Husbandry, 1586) enumerates, as ‘‘ y° chyef instrumentes 
