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.