There be diuers sorts of Manures, and first of those that bee worst, as Swines dunge, which Manure breedeth and bringeth vp thistles; the scourings of Hay-barnes or Corne barnes, which bringeth vp sundry weedes and quirks [quicks?]; and rotten Chaffe, which diuers vse, but brings little good. The shoueling of highwayes and streetes is very good, chiefely for Barley. Horse-dunge is reasonable. The dunge of all maner of Cattel that chew the cudde is most excellent. Doues dunge for colde ground is best of all, but it must be spred very thinne. For grounds that are giuen to riue and chap, ashes is excellent, for they will binde and knit together. Also for such grounds it is most singular to burne the stubble on the ground, which is worth tenne manurings: for it fatneth (saith _Virgill_) the soyle, and yeeldeth a secrete force of nourishment vnto the seede. Also, euery euill is tryed out by the fire, and the vnprofitable moisture is forced to sweat out, it giueth a vent and passage for the iuyce that quickeneth the Corne, and it closeth the gaping vaines and holes of the earth, through which, eyther extreame moysture, extreame heate, or wind, would blast the Corne. Also in Cheshiere, Lankishiere, and other Countreys, they vse for manure a kinde of blewe Marble-like earth, which they call Marle. This is for those Countries an excellent manure, and though it be exceeding chargeable, yet through good neighbour-hood it quiteth the cost: for if you manure your groundes once in seauen or twelue yeares, it is sufficient, and look how many yeares he beareth Corne, so many yeares he will beare grasse, and that plenty. Straw layd to rot in the Winter, is good dung. 30. _sholynges_; _i.e._ shovellings. Note “the _shoueling_ of highwayes” in the extract given just above. =18.= 3. _flyte_] shift (which is a gloss). So also in l. 28. 10. _kelles begonne_] kells be gone. This shews that the reading _begonne_ in the original is a misprint for _be gone_. 17. _appeyreth them sore_] abateth them much. 23. _goynge vppon_] treading or going upon with their feete. 31. _appeyre_] abate or diminish. 33. _for_] from. This shews that the old idiomatic use of _for_ (= against) was obsolescent in 1598. =19.= 5. _charte_] Cart. And perhaps we should read _carte_ in the text; the meaning of _charte_ is, of course, _cart_. 8. Here I. R. inserts--“And for this purpose of carrying, I take the Horse-Cart to be best, because they be most nimble, and goe with best speede; & if the Horses be good, they will not at any time loose company with his neighbours.” =20.= 3. _cocledrake_] Cockell, Drake. And such should be the reading; for see ll. 13, 17. 4. _darnolde_] Darnell. _gouldes_] Golds. _haudoddes_] Hadods. 6. _roughe_] tough. 23. _sterte_] stalke (a gloss). 32. _is_] are. Fitzherbert makes _is_ agree with _one_. 47. _dee-nettles_] Dee, Nettels (wrongly). =21.= 15. _in the reane_] away. I. R. omits the rest, down to _wyddre_.