Notes (23. 17—33. 7). i35 



17. Tnane\ man (.'). The sense is, I suppose, a ridge of grass, which is likened 

 to a horse's mane. 



20. moldyioarpe-hills] Mole-hills, styckes] sticks and stones. 



In the Book on Surveying, c. 25, we are told that the best way to spread 

 • mouldy-warpe hilUs] is by bush-harrowing. 



24. 3. beyked'\ keyked (which I suspect to be nonsense). In line 12, btykyng 

 is altered to baking. 



15. hasell and wUhie\'Rass(M or "Viiihy. 



19. and lei his warke] wherby he shall hinder his worke. 



21. and^ if (a gloss of an obsolescent conjunction). So again in sect 25, 1. 16. 



25. 7. ouer] vpper. See the Glossary. 



22. crofole] Crow-foote. 



27. After loyll, I. R. inserts " as they say." 



32. lwon\ twined (the weak form). 



26. 5. I. R. alters this so as to give a different sense — " when it is mowne, it 

 will be so fast bound that no man can gather it so cleane but there wil be great 

 losse." This is contradictory, and probably he missed the word not. 



27. 17. I. R. omits the phrase — "about Zelcestre and Martok." 



28. 13. And whan the barley, &c.] and when the Barley is lead away, the Land 

 must be raked with a great Rake with yron teeth, made fast about a mans necke 

 with a string, and so drawne vp and downe the Lande, or els much Barley wil be 

 lost. If Barley or Oates be layd through \vinde or ill weather, then it must needes 

 be shome, els not. The binding of barley in sheaues is very profitable, yet many 

 that haue great crops will not attend so great trouble, but as soone as it is mowne 

 make it in cocks like hay, and so carry it home : yet must they haue good respect 

 vnto it, for if it bee full of weede and greeues {sic, for greenes), then must it 

 lye till they be withered, or els it will bume in the mow. 



29. 2. j«-^<ct] steeles. Mtet staffe-hokss, I. R. adds — " and some mow downe 

 with Sythes." 



4. on repes\ in reaps. 



II. codde\ codds. This is a better reading. 



30. 7. to pervse] peruse. This early use of peruse in the sense of go through, 

 lit. use up thoroughly, should be noted. It occurs again in the Book of Surveying, 

 capp. 19, 24 ; see note to 33. 7. 



18. As to the fall of the tenth part of the angels, see my notes to P. Plowman. 

 21. After truely, I. R. adds — " but how eyther of the sayings hold with vncon- 



scionable impropriations, adiudge the learned, let me imagine. " 



31. 3. halfe-throne\ halfe-theame («V). 



32. 5. reke\ Reeke, stack, or houell. 6, scaffolde\ houell ; and in 11. 9, 11. 

 7. hedged for] hedged or paled from. 



II. shepe or catel] Sheep, Cattel, Horse, Carts, Wains, or Ploughs. 



33. 3. nieane\ reasonable. 4. ebbe\ shallow. 

 6. reatie\ raine of balke. 



33. 7. So also in the Book of Surveying, c 24. " And if it so be, than take 

 thy ploughe, and begyn to plowe a forowe in the myddes of the syde of the land, 

 and cast it downe as yf thou shulde falowe it, and so pervse both sydes tyl the 

 rygge be cast down, and than take thy plough agayn, and begyn to plowe where 

 thou dyddest plowe fyrste, and rygge all the remeynant upwarde, and so shall thou 



