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be holpe with great pylys of alder rammed downe, and with a 
frame of tymbre called a crossaundre (fis/ucd).” , In Caxton’s 
Mirrour of the World, Part II. c. 22, it is said, ‘‘understande ye 
how the erthe quaueth and shaketh, that somme peple calle an erthe 
quaue, by cause they fele the erthe meue and quaue vnder their 
feet.” “Quaue myre, /foundriere crouliere.’ — Palsgrave. Forby 
gives Quavery-mavery = undecided, hesitating. — Way, Note in 
Prompt. Parv., s.v. Quave. 
51. 25. The meaning is, make your dunghill on the headland, 
especially where shaded with trees and bushes, as they will prevent 
the moisture from exhaling.—M. 
“T see in some meddowes gazlly places where little or no 
grasse at al groweth, by reason (as I take it) of the too long 
standing of the water, for such places are commonly low, where 
the water standeth, not hauing vent to passe away, and therefore 
meanes must be first made for the evacuation of the water: for the 
continual standing of the water consumeth the grasse, and makes 
the place bare, and sinketh it. In such a place, therefore, sow in 
the Spring-time some hay-seed, especially the seed of the claver 
grasse,’ or the grasse hony-suckle,” and other seeds that fall out of 
the finest and purest hay: and in the sowing of it, mingle with it 
some good earth; but sow not the hony-suckle grasse in too moist 
a ground, for it liketh it not.’—Norden’s Surveyors Dialogue, 
1607, pp. 201-2. Gauls are void spaces in Coppices which serve 
for nothing but to entice the Cattel into it, to its great Damage.— 
TR 
51. 29. If the land is overstocked in summer, you may, perhaps, 
be obliged to assist your cattle to rise in winter; or, in other words, 
‘to lift at their tails.’-—M. Cf. 21. 14. 
51. 32. It appears to have been the custom formerly to allow, in 
warm weather, sleep for an hour or two. In Norfolk we are told 
the practice is not quite obsolete on churning days when the 
mistress and maids get up early; and likewise among the plough- 
men, where two journies a day are performed with their teams, and 
an interval allowed for rest.—M. 
““Patch:* Cf. Shakspere, Mid., Night's Dr., Act ili.’sese5)ana 
Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 5. 
“‘Growthed” =grout-hed=thick head, fat head. Cf. growfnowl= 
a blockhead. ‘‘ Grow/e nowle come to the King.”—Promos and 
Cassandra, p. 81. 
51. 33. Stilling, or distilling, may be a “pretty feat,” but we 
doubt if it is very profitable, and if it does not furnish a temptation 
to dram-drinking, under the mask of simple and medicinal weavers. 
—M. 
52. 6. See note to 15. 8. 
1 Clover. 2 Trefoil. 
We ra 
