Sturgeon. Eats no food, has no mouth, grows fat on east wind. Has no bones in his body.
[ Wilyam Bulleyn on Boxyng & Neckeweede]
For saucy louts, the best cure is Boxing.
The names of Hemp.
Neckweed (a halter) is good for thievish apprentices, for swashbucklers past grace, and all scamps.
Also for young spendthrifts who after their parents’ death waste their all with harlots and in gambling which makes men beggars, or thieves.
A life of reckless debauchery and robbery ends with Hemp.
The use of Hemp to the Sailor, Plowman, Fisher and Archer.
[ Andrew Borde on Sleep, Rising, and Dress]
After Dinner, sleep standing against a cupboard.