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Ittes knowyn in every lond, 
Wekyd tongges don gret wrong, 
Thei make me to lyyn long, 
And also in myche car. 
3yfa man go in clothes gay, 
Or elles in gud aray, 
Wekyd tongges yet wyl say, 
Wer cam the by therto ? 
3yf a man go in cloys ill, 
And have not the world at wy], 
Wekyd tongges thei wyll hym spyll, 
And seyd he ys a stake, lat hym goo. 
Now us to amend God yeve us grace, 
Of repentens and of gud grace, 
That we mut se hys glorius face. 
Amen, Amen, for charyte.” 
65. 1. There is a smoothness in the versification of this sonnet, 
and a succession of imagery, though drawn from common 
sources, which we do not often find in Tusser. He has made a 
good use of the figure ero/eses—M. Compare Milton, Lycidas, 45 : 
** As killing as the canker to the rose, 
Or fain/-worm to the weanling herds that graze.” 
66. 1. Janus, an old Italian deity, the god of the sun and the 
year, to whom the month of January was dedicated. 
66. 5. Ver=Spring, A’stas=Summer, Hyems= Winter. 
66. 7. ‘“Delaide ;” so in Spenser, Faery Queene, ix. 30. ‘‘ But to 
delay the heat,” and in Prothalamium 3: 
** Zephyrus did softly play 
A gentle spirit, that lightly did de/ay 
Hot Titan’s beames.” 
66. 9. Alluding to the thirteen revolutions of the moon in the 
ear. 
; 67. It appears from the Books of the Stationers’ Company, on 
the authority of Warton (Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 428) that 
a licence was granted to T. Hackett, in the year 1562, to print 
“A Dialogue of Wyvynge and Thryvynge of Tusshers with ij lessons 
for olde and yonge.” 
67. 2. ‘Bolted out,” a term taken from the language and usage of 
millers, who use the word ‘‘to bolt” of the separation of the bran 
from the flour. Cf. Chaucer, Nonnes Prior’s Tale, 415 : 
“But yit I can not dult tt to the bren.” 
And Spenser, Faery Queene, iv. 24: 
‘‘He now had doul/ed all the floure.” 
“Time and nature will do/¢ out the truth of things.”—D’Estrange. 
** To doulte out the truth in reasoning, /imare veritatem in disceptatione.” 
—Baret’s Alvearie. A ‘ Bolting Cloth” is the name in Lincolnshire 
