142 Notes (86—127. 4)- 



86, 87. I. R. considers these two diseases together, and discourses of them 

 at lengtli, saying that he has ' cured many very sore spent.' 



88. I. R. explains ' Strangulion ' as appearing ' in a swelling impostume as 

 bigge as a mans fist, iust betweene a horses chaules.' 



89—113. I. R. omits nearly all these sections, excepting 91 (which agrees with 

 his ' Chapter 42. Of the Vines ') and sect. 109 (which is his Chapter 54). 



109. I. R. has the rubric — 'Of enterfayring ' ; and says — ' Enterfairing is a 

 griefe that commeth sometimes by ill shooing, and sometimes naturally, when a 

 Horse trots so narrow that he hewes [knocks] one legge vpon another.' It is what 

 we now call 'over-stepping.' The derivation is from the French form of Lat. 

 inter-ferire ; and it is from this term in farriery that we have taken the mod. E. 

 i7iterfere. 



116. I. R. omits this section. 



118. I. R. introduces here ' Chapter 55. How to make the pouder of honey 

 and lime.' 



119. 2, 6. The French lines are in doggerel rime, and the English translations 

 seem also to be meant for verse, such as it is. The omission of the words or 

 iourneye (in 1. 8) would improve the scansion. 



8. or nyghl, i.e. ere night. Altered by I. R. to out-right. 



120. 4. tame\ lame (!) ; an ominous mistake, for which the compositor should 

 have the credit. 



121. 4. We may feel sure that this sayinge was originally in verse. Perhaps it 

 ran thus : 



" He that hath sheep, and swyne, and hyue, 

 Slepe he, wake he, he maye thryue." 



Or we might write been (Chaucer's plural of bee), riming with theen, the usual 

 M. E. word for 'thrive.' 



9. Hogges. As to the exact sense of this word, see the note on it in the 

 * Corrections and Additions ' to the larger edition of my Etymological Dictionary. 



122. 38. sclatte^ slate. 



124. Here I. R. begins his third book, relating to timber and distillations. 



12, Midsummer-moon is an old phrase ; it occurs in the second line of 

 the prologue to the Plowman's Tale, which is inserted in some editions of 

 Chaucer, though really written by the anonymous author of the Plowman's 

 Crede. 



33. muldes a spade-graffe depe'\ mould with a spade a foot deepe. 



35. peruse\ doo still. 



39. I. R. adds— or els beeing drowned, not to prosper. 



125. 4. fyue fote brod, dr^cl fiue foote broad, then it would be set with three 

 chesses or rowes one aboue another, but of what depth or breadth soeuer, it 

 would be double sette, &c. 



5, hedgel dead hedge. 



126. 2. ellore'] Elder (the later form). 



6. edderynge\ wood ; see the glossary. So, in 1. 7, I. R. translates eddered 

 by bounde; and again in 1. 16, he alters edderinges to byndings. 



9. trou5e\ brouse (as above) ; see 38. 3. 



127. 4. the more halue] more the« halfe. But the more half e, i.e. the greater 

 part, is right enough, and the older phrase. In 1. 23, it is left unaltered. 



