[E419] "As mo have bin;" compare note [E391].
[E420] "The good wiues husband weares no breech." So in a song in the MS. of the 15th cent. quoted above, the heading of which is
"Nova, Nova, sawe yow ever such,
The moste mayster of the hows weryth no brych."
The burden of the song being
"Lest the most mayster wer no brych."
[E421] The same reply is attributed to Thales. See his life in Diogenes Laertius, Bk. i. 26.
[E422] "Yyng men, I red that ye be war,
That ye cum not in the snar;
For he is browt in meche car,
That have a shrow onto his wyfe.
In a panter I am caute,
My fot his pennyd, I may not owt;
In sorow and car he his put,
That have, etc.
With a qwene yif that thou run,
Anon it is told into the town;
Sorow he hath both up and down,
That have, etc."
—Song in MS. of 15th century quoted above.