298 Notes and Illustrations. 
Gervase Markham, in the First Part of the English Husbandman, 
ch. 6, remarks :—‘‘ You may by these usuall observations, and the 
helpe of a better judgement, imploy the fruits of your labours to 
the best profit, and sell everything at the highest price, except you 
take upon you to gzve day and sell upon trust, which if you doe, you 
may then sell at what unconscionable reckoning you will.” Cf. 
** When drapers draw no gaines by giving day.” — 
Gascoigne, The Steel Glass, 1094. 
62. 10. ‘By that and by this;” that is, by anything, or by 
chance. Compare stanza 6, and chap. 67, stanza §, p. 153. 
62. 17. “A tode with an R” is an elegant euphemism for /orde ; 
the meaning being that a bad husbandman is more likely to receive 
insults and refusals, than compliance with his requests. Compare 
Wycliffe’s translation of Luke xiii. 8, as given at p. 365 of Dr. 
Bosworth’s edit. of the Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels, with the 
Versions of Wycliffe and Tyndale, London, 1865. 
63. 6. “‘ Experience should seeme to proue playnely, that Inclo- 
sures should be profitable and not hurtfull to the common weale ; 
for we see the countryes where most Inclosiers be, are most 
wealthy, as L’ssex, Kent, Northamptonshyre, etc. And I have hearde 
a Ciuilian once say, that it was taken for a Maxime in his lawe 
(this saying), ‘that which is possessed of many in common, is 
neglected of all;’ and experience sheweth that Tenaunts in common 
be not so good husbandes, as when euery man hath his parte in 
seueralty; also, I have heard say, that in the most countreyes 
beyonde the Sea, they knowe not what acommon grounde meaneth.” 
—Stafford’s Examination of Complaints, New Shakspere Soc., ed. 
Furnivall, p. 40. 
63. 9. Fitzherbert shows how a township that is worth twenty 
marks a-year may be made worth £20, and the ground-work of his 
plan is to enclose the land. ‘By enclosing,” he says, ‘‘a farmer 
shall save meat, drink, and wages of a shepherd ; the wages of the 
swineherd, the which may fortune to be as chargeable as his whole 
rent ; and also his corn shall be better saved from eating or de- 
stroying by cattle.” 
63. 12. Harman, 1567 (E. E. Text Soc., ed. Furnivall, p. 82), 
speaks of ‘‘lewtering lusks and lazy /orre/s,” and in Pierce Plow- 
man’s Crede we find in line 750, ‘‘lordes sones lowly to po /osedls 
aloute,” and in 1. 755, ‘and leuep swiche /ove/s for her lowe wordes.” 
—See Note in Prompt. Parv. s.v. Lorel. Levins (Manip. Vocab. 
1570) translates /orel by nebulo, scurra. 
Courts for presenting nuisances are generally the greatest 
nuisances themselves. Under the semblance of justice, they often 
retard its execution. The members, or jury who compose them, 
do not want the power, but they want the independence to act 
right.—M. 
63. 14. ‘(In Bridewell a number be stript,” etc. Although all 
