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l. 867. _Hose._ For eight pair of _hosen_ of cloth of divers colours, at
xiij s. iiij d. the pair; and for four pair “of sokks of fustian” at iij
d. the pair (p. 118) ... for making and lyning of vj pair of _hosen_ of
puke lyned with cloth of the goodes of the saide Richard, for lynyng of
every pair iij s. iiij d. xx s. Wardrobe Accounts of Edw. IV. (ed.
Nicolas) p. 120.
l. 879. Combing the head was specially enjoined by the doctors. See
A. Borde, Vaughan, &c., below.
l. 915. _Fustian._ March, 1503, ‘for v yerdes _fustyan_ for a cote at
vij d. the yerd ij s. xj d.’ Nicolas’s Elizabeth of York, p. 105. See
A. Borde, below. ‘Coleyne threde, _fustiane_, and canvase’ are among the
‘commodites ... fro Pruse ibroughte into Flaundres,’ according to the
_Libelle_, p. 171,
But tha Flemmyngis amonge these thinges dere
In comen lowen beste bacon and bere:
Thus arn thy hogges, and drynkye wele staunt;
Fare wele Flemynge, hay, horys, hay, avaunt.
(See _n._ p. 131, below.)
A. Borde, in his _Introduction_, makes one of the Januayes (Genoese)
say,
I make good treacle, and also _fustian_,
With such thynges I crauft with many a pore man.
l. 941-5. See the extracts from Andrew Borde, W. Vaughan, &c., below.
l. 945. The Motte bredethe amonge clothes tyll that they have byten it a
sonder / & it is a maniable worm, and yet it hydeth him in y^e clothe
that it can scantly be sene / & it bredethe gladly in clothes that haue
ben i{n} an euyll ayre, or in a rayn or myst, and so layde vp without
hanging in the sonne or other swete ayre after.
The Operacyon.
The erbes that be bitter & well smelli{n}ge is good to be layde amo{n}ge
suche clothes / as the baye leuis, cypres wode. _The Noble Lyfe_ (i. 3.)
Pt. i. Cap. c.xlij. sign. i. 3.
l. 969. _Catte._ The mouse hounter or catte is an onclene beste, & a
poyson ennemy to all myse / and whan she hath goten [one], she playeth
therwith / but yet she eteth it / & y^e catte hath lo{n}ge here on her
mouthe / and whan her heres be gone, than hathe she no boldnes / and she
is gladli in a warme place / and she licketh her forefete & wassheth
therwith her face. Laurens Andrewe, _The Noble Lyfe_ (g. iv.), Part I.
cap. c.i.
l. 970, _dogge._ Here is the first part of Laurens Andrewe’s Chapter.
Of the dogge. ca. xxiiij.
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