=4.= 14. _slot-wedges_] flote wedges; I. R. I. R. does not seem to have understood it, as he alters _slote_ to _flatte_ in the two lines following. 19. After _erthe_, I. R. has--“so that it may, as the best experienced Plow-men say, kill a worme, or els it goeth not truly.” _Worme_ is clearly right. He further inserts--“The poynt of your Culture, and the poynt of your Share, must runne both in one leuell, so that they may cutte both in one instant, chiefely if the ground be stiffe and tough; but if it be in a light land, then if the point of your Culture be a little longer it shall be so much the better, and in such light groundes, let your Culture be somwhat sickell-wise bowed, for the finer cutting, but in tough Clay ground it ought to be as straight as may be.” 26. _payreth_] hurteth; I. R. This is a gloss. 29. _practyue_] practise; I. R.[37] 33. _bende_] band. But _bende_ probably means ‘bent piece.’ 35. _he_] you (throughout). This shews that this idiomatic use of _he_ was obsolescent in 1598. 46. _coke_] Cocke. 58. I. R. adds--“In diuers Countries, as namely in Cambridgshiere, Huntington, Hartford, Bedford, and Northamton, the share is alwayes nayled with certaine nayles vnto the shelboard, to which I am not so well affected, because by that meanes the shelboard can neuer be turnd, or after he is once worne be [_sic_] for other purpose, whereas in the Northerne partes of this Land, the share being only fastned in his socket to the Plough-head, which may at ease be done with a crooked horne of a Ramme, which being put ouer the poynt of the share, may be knocked fast at ones pleasure, the shelboard being worne at the one end may be taken off, and the other end set forward, which will as sufficiently serue as euer it did before, yeelding to the Plough-man a double profit.” =5.= 1. _But or he_] Before we. 2. _geare_] implements. A genteel improvement! So again in l. 45. 4. _stylkynges_, _wrethyng-temes_] stilting wrethen teames. 6. _sleues_] cleuisse. _pykforke_] Pitchforke. 9. _fellyes_] follies (!). 10. _fettred_] fettered or tyed. 17. _soule_] sole. 19. _lyn-pinnes_] limpins. 23. _pikstaues_] pickstaues, all which are best of Ashe. 24. _hombers_] humbers. _holmes whyted_, _tresses_] holmes, withed traces. 29. _or kyddes, or suche other_] faggots, or Kids. =6.= 5. I. R. adds--“yet in all _Virgils_ writing the Oxe-plough is most preferred.” There are other unimportant variations here. 17. _teddered_] teathered. 18. _hades_] hadds. 24. _gere that they shal_] harnes and tyer they. 27. _hey_] hay mingled, which Plough-men call bendfoder. 28. _and they haue, &c._] and for shooes for the most part that cost in them is saued, except it be for some long iourney, or in stony wayes for feare of surbayting. 30. _lyttell worthe_] worth nothing, except for a kennell of noyse-begetting Hounds. 32. _ii._ s.] tenne shillings. =7.= I. R. omits this section altogether.