[140:A] This side of the question may be seen somewhat forcibly put in John Halle's "Historick Expostulation against the beastlye Abuses of Chyrurgerie and Physicke," 1565. [141:A] "Aske Medicus counsell ere medcine ye make, And honour that man for necessitie's sake, Though thousands hate physick because of the cost, Yet thousands it helpeth that else should be lost." "Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie," by Tusser, 1573. It will be noted that it is "ye make"; nowadays it would have to be written "ye take." The verse is from a section on "Good huswifelie physicke." The farmer's wife herself cultivates a goodly store of "Cold herbes in her garden for agues that burne, That ouer strong heate to good temper may turne," such as "Endiue and Suckerie," "Water of Fumentorie, liver to coole." "Conserve of the Barbarie, quinces as such, With Sirops that easeth the sickly so much," must also be provided, to say nothing of "Spinnage ynough." [145:A] In Shakespeare's "Henry V." we read how the Constable of France and the Duke of Orleans thus bandied proverbs: "_Orl._ Ill will never said well. _Con._ I will cap that proverb with--there is flattery in friendship. _Orl._ And I will take that up with--give the devil his due. You are the better at proverbs, by how much?--a fool's bolt is soon shot." [149:A] "Set thee up waymarks."--_Jeremiah_ xxi. 21. "Is this the path of sanctity? Is this To stand a waymark in the road to bliss?" --COWPER, _Progress of Error_. [150:A] In some cases it is "backer," as though the comparative, "more back." [151:A] "Nydyote" is really an idiot, even as "naddere" in old books is really an adder. [153:A] "Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them. Till he hath received he will kiss a man's hand; and for his neighbour's money he will speak submissively: but when he should repay he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time."--_Ecclesiasticus_, B.C. 200. An old English proverb declares that "Lent seems short to him that borrows money to be paid at Easter." [156:A] This thinness would appear to have been of bulk, not of quality. "Some preferre Cheshire Cheese, and others also commend the cheese of other countries; but Banbury Cheese shall goe for my money."--COGAN'S _Haven of Health_, 1612. [157:A] "Few capons, save what have more fins than feathers, are bred in Yarmouth. But to countenance this expression, I understand that the Italian Friers, when disposed to eat flesh on Fridays, call a capon 'piscem e corte,' a fish of the coop."--_Fuller._