146 Notes (145. 15—155). 



head at pleasure, either to white, red, blue, yellow, ' or what other colour els hee 

 list ; which thing maketh him seeme wonderfull st[r]ange to them that behold it. ' 

 . . ' Their greatest diseases is the Pip and the Squecke.' As to pigeons, ' I haue 

 knowne some that haue builded their Doue-houses vpon high pillars ouer the 

 midst of some Pond or great water, both because they delight much in water, and 

 also to keepe them the safer from vermine.' Swans ' will, when they waxe olde, 

 declare the time of their own death to be neere approching, by a sweete and 

 lamentable note which they then sing.' 



145. 15. I. R. has — 'Wherefore it is conuenient (I say) that they loue each 

 other as effectually as loue can in the best sence comprehend : and this worke 

 especiallie, a woman is bound both by law and nature to performe.' Why so? 



146. I. R. omits 11. 2 — 7 ; he was certainly a Protestant. 



8. redy. This is the old word for dressed, as might be shewn by many exam- 

 ples. It may suffice to say that I. R. explains araye theym in 1. 1 1 by make them 

 ready. 



10. socle\ suckle. I. R. omits sye vp thy mylke, which he probably did not 

 understand. 



13. I. R. omits and take thy parte with theym ; and, for serue thy swyne (1. 20) 

 he puts looke to the seruing of thy Swine. Customs were probably changing. 



31. the gleyd'\ Kites. And fullymartes is omitted. 



35. After eate, I. R. adds — in Sallets, or otherwise. 



42. hecheled'\ heckled. 43. wrapped^ warped. 



51. ripeled, i.e. rippled ; I. R. has repled. In 1. 41 above, I. R. has repealed ; 

 yet this is, I suppose, the same word. 



53. token'] Locken, It means locked or tightly closed up ; for lock was once 

 a strong verb. 



57. pulled] culled (which is an ingenious alteration and perhaps right). 



104. The Knight of the Tour- Landry is the book here referred to, and was one 

 of the books printed by Caxton. The edition printed by the Early English Text 

 Society, and edited by T. W^right, is so easily accessible that it is needless to say 

 more here than that Fitzherbert's description of it is perfectly correct. 



147. 12. rendit] tendit. This correction may be right, but I am not sure of 

 it. The Leonine (or riming) verses quoted cannot be of any great antiquity, and 

 it is quite possible that rendit is intended as a Low-Latin translation of the French 

 rend, pr. s. oirendre. The true Latin word is, of course reddit ; which, however, 

 gives no rime. Fitzherbert's translation is intended to be in verse. 



148. 3. brynke] brim. "Better spare at brim than at bottom"; Hazlitt's 

 Proverbs. And see note to Tusser, 10. 35. 



12. tedure] teathure (not a good spelling.) 

 15. lees'] ground. Jlytte] shift. 17. tyed] stakt. 

 26. putteth hym in the py7ifolde] impoundes him. 

 38. ren ryot] runne. 



43. it is meruayle] gracious were thi? stars of thy natiuitie (a fine phrase !). 

 150, 151, 152, 153. I. R. omits these four sections. 



153. 3. This quotation, from Dionysii Catonis Disticha, iii. 7, appears also in 

 P. Plowman, B. xii. 23. 



28. I do not know where to find this quotation, 



155. 10. behouable] behoouefull (which is a better form). 



