=145.= 15. I. R. has--‘Wherefore it is conuenient (I say) that they loue each other as effectually as loue can in the best sence comprehend: and this worke especiallie, a woman is bound both by law and nature to performe.’ Why so?
=146.= I. R. omits ll. 2-7; he was certainly a Protestant.
8. _redy._ This is the old word for _dressed_, as might be shewn by many examples. It may suffice to say that I. R. explains _araye theym_ in l. 11 by _make them ready_.
10. _socle_] suckle. I. R. omits _sye vp thy mylke_, which he probably did not understand.
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.
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.)
26. _putteth hym in the pynfolde_] impoundes him.
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.