For now I will were thys, and now I will were that;

Now I will were I cannot tell what.

All new fashyons be plesaunt in me;

I wyl haue them, whether I thryve or thee."

From Andrew Boorde's Introduction (1541), and Dyetary (1542), edited by F.J.F. for Early English Text Society, 1870, p. 116. (A most quaint and interesting volume, though I say so.)—Furnivall.

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This was in the time of general idleness.—H.

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At whose hands shall the blood of these men be required?—H.

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Law of the Marshal.—Furnivall.

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Here lacks.—H.

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"An innovation, has always mixed effects."