138 Notes (39. 9—54. 22). 



ing the grammar of the text; for Fitzherbert does not say ^' and give her," but 

 '^ than gyue her," i.e. then give her. Consequently all that precedes the word 

 than belongs to the clause containing the supposition. 



39. 9. After theym, I. R. inserts — Yet Virgill aduiseth you in such a case to 

 haue a leather full of sharp poynted nayles, which being put about the musell of 

 the Lambe, if it offer to sucke, it will so pricke the dugges of the Ewe that she 

 will not suffer it, but by that meanes weane it perforce : and by the same deuise 

 you may weane all maner of Cattell whatsoeuer. See Virg. Georg. iii. 399. 



40. 14. steke\ shutt (which is a gloss). 



24. go belie, grese, i.e. go and belt them, and grease them. As to belting, see 

 the next section. I. R. very stupidly alters the phrase to goe melt grease, though 

 he has to retain the word belt below. 



41. 18. It is hard to make an old dog stoop ; i.e. it is hard to make him submit 

 to being taught. This occurs in Heywood's Proverbs, 1562 (Hazlitt). In the 

 most insipid way, I. R. alters to stoupe into for Sheepe, spoiling the whole saying. 



43. To niedle terre is to mix tar. I. R. alters medle in the rubric to melt, and 

 then substitutes mingled for medled in 1. i. This is very clumsy. 



44. In the rubric, I. R. alters brome to browne, which is certainly wrong ; see 

 the context. 



7. gelly] lelly. Yet the spelling with g is well enough. 



8. pyssel pisse or lye. See lye in the glossary. 



14. or of faldynge, &c.] or a folding of some such soft cloth or wooll. It is clear 

 that I. R. did not know the word faldynge, or he would not thus have altered the 

 text. 



17. sheydes\ sheeds ; i.e. partings ; see sect. 42, 1. 4. 



24. for'X from (as in other places). For = against, to prevent, 



45. 4. fyled] filled. This is wrong ; fyled means fouled, defiled. 



46. 3. ratherl sooner. I. R. adds — There be diuers waters for this purpose, as 

 water made of Sandiuer and burnt AUom, or the iuyce of Housleeke strained and 

 mingled with Rose-water ; or the braines of an hatched, as thus : Take a linnen 

 cloth, and burne it vpon the head of a hatchet, then blow away the ashes, and 

 there wilbe on the hatchets head a kind of oyle, that taken and put in a sheepes 

 eye, is most excellent. 



47. 3. clese^ clawes. 9. clese"] clea. Clea is claw ; clese = cleas, claws. 



15. pece of fleshe\ peece of fleame (i.e. phlegm). 



48. 12. I. R. adds — to the great hinderance of the sale. 



49. I. pockes\ Pox (the modern spelling). 



9. I. R. adds — but if you cannot wash them, then let them blood in the roofes 

 of the mouth, and after they haue left bleeding, giue them a supping of milke and 

 Saffron mingled together. 



51. 6. murtheryng or ouer-pressyng\ smoothering or oppressing. And certainly 

 smothering seems the right word. 



10. I. R. adds — Wash your sheepe in running Riuers, for standing Ponds are ill. 



52. 4. tarboxe] Tarbox, or bronne salue. Here bronne is a misprint for broune; 

 and broune is a mistake for brome. See note to sect. 44 aboVe. 



54. 14. After shepe, I. R. inserts — salt marshes onely excepted. 

 22. kelles vppon the grasse] kels vpon the grasse like to Spinners webs. (A 

 spinner is a spider. ) 



