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13. I. R. omits _and take thy parte with theym_; and, for _serue
thy swyne_ (l. 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 l. 41 above, I.
R. has _repealed_; yet this is, I suppose, the same word.
53. _loken_] 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. Wright, 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.
of _rendre_. 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. _flytte_] shift.
17. _tyed_] stakt.
26. _putteth hym in the pynfolde_] impoundes him.
38. _ren ryot_] runne.
43. _it is meruayle_] gracious were th_e_ 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).
=156.= In the rubric, I. R. has--‘what riches are’; but in l. 1, he
has--‘It is now requisite to know what riches is.’ Already _riches_
was becoming a plural substantive. It may be remarked that I. R.
omits the _Latin_ forms of all the quotations.
=157.= 19. _duetie_] debt (which is what is meant). So also in ll.
22, 24.
=160.= 2. After _declare_, I. R. inserts--and euery booke of Common
prayer dooth containe them. A pertinent remark.
=161.= 3. I. R. omits the reference to the Athanasian Creed, and
says we must ‘beleeue stedfastly the Catholick fayth.’
25. I. R. omits from _The fulfyllynge_ to the end of the section.
For a description of the seven works of mercy, see Spenser, F. Q.
1. 10. 36.
=163.= 3. I. R. has--and hast a stedfast fayth in Christ. He has
almost wholly rewritten this section, and says we are bound ‘to
come to common prayer;’ and omits the quotation from St. Ambrose.
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