In comen lowen beste bacon and bere:
Thus arn thy hogges, and drynkye wele staunt;
Fare wele Flemynge, hay, horys, hay, avaunt. (See [n. p. 131], below.)
A. Borde, in his Introduction, makes one of the Januayes (Genoese) say,
I make good treacle, and also fustian,
With such thynges I crauft with many a pore man.
[l. 941-5.] See the extracts from [Andrew Borde], [W. Vaughan], &c., below.
[l. 945.] The Motte bredethe amonge clothes tyll that they have byten it a sonder / & it is a maniable worm, and yet it hydeth him in ye clothe that it can scantly be sene / & it bredethe gladly in clothes that haue ben in an euyll ayre, or in a rayn or myst, and so layde vp without hanging in the sonne or other swete ayre after.
The Operacyon.
The erbes that be bitter & well smellinge is good to be layde amonge suche clothes / as the baye leuis, cypres wode. The Noble Lyfe (i. 3.) Pt. i. Cap. c.xlij. sign. i. 3.