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57. 51. ‘‘ When it [the malt] hath gone, or beene turned, so long 
[21 days] vpon the floore, they carrie it to a kill, couered with 
haire cloth, where they giue it gentle heats (after they haue spread 
it there verie thin abroad) till it be drie, and in the meane while they 
turne it often, that it may be vniformelie dried.”—Harrison, Descrip- 
tion of England, ed. F. J. Furnivall, Part I. p. 156. 
57. 55. Cf. September's Husbandry, Stanza 1. 
58. 1. One part in ten is far below the present’ average value 
of land. If the whole produce will clear fovr rents, the industrious 
farmer would have no reason to complain, though he is now subject 
to heavy taxes, which, it is to be remarked are not included in the 
list of outgoings.—M. 
58. 12. ‘‘ Well fare the plough.” Ona flyleaf of a MS. of Piers 
Plowman (MS. R. 3, 14, in Trinity Coll. Camb.) is written, 
** God spede the plou3 
& sende vs korne I-now.” 
See print in beginning of Wright’s ed. of Piers Plowman. 
59. The advice given in this short piece, the most difficult, 
perhaps, that Tusser had written, is very good, but he has strained 
alliteration to an extravagant pitch. 
60. 1. In the reign of Elizabeth an Act was passed, requiring 
a seven years’ apprenticeship to enable a person to set up in 
business or trade; and hence the idea arose of dividing human 
life into periods of seven years—M. The idea is much older; for, 
in Arnold’s Chronicle (edition 1811), page 157, we find:—‘‘ The 
vij Ages of Ma liuing 1 the World. The furst age is infance and 
lastith from y® byrth vnto vij yere of age. The ij is childhod and 
endurith vnto xv yere age. The iij age is adholocencye and 
endurith vnto xxv yere age. The iiij age is youth and endurith 
vnto xxxv yere age. The v age is manhod and endurith vnto 
lyere age. The vj age is [elde] and lasteth vnto lxx yere age. The 
vij age of ma is crepill and endurith vnto dethe.” 
See Prompt. Parv. p. 7, for another version of the above, the 
limits assigned to the several stages being different, and the 
seventh stage beginning at the resurrection. 
61. 2. “Foxe, Ape with his toieng,” etc. Dr. Mavor’s edition 
reads, ‘‘ For Ape with his toieng,” etc. 
62. ‘‘The tone from the tother;”’ the tone=that one, the tother= 
that other; where the ¢ is the sign of the neuter gender, as in tha-/, 
i-¢; compare the Latin d in i-d, quo-d, illu-d.—In ch. 110, p. 201, 
we have the curious forms ‘‘ thon” and “‘ thother.” 
62. 6. “To him and to hur,” that is, to every one, or to any one. 
Cf. 94, 3, and 
‘“The white lambe pat hurte was with the spere 
Flemere of feendes out of hym and here.” 
Chaucer, Man of Law’s Tale, 1. 460, Six-Text ed. 
62. 8. ‘‘Daieth”=dayeth, that is, appoints a day on which he 
promises to pay. 
