This is the first letter; the second one about the figs, raisins, and love-making (dated 23 Feb. 1478-9) is given at vol. ii. p. 122-3.
Tusser, who was seized as a Singing boy for the King’s Chapel, lets us know that he got well birched at Eton.
“From Paul’s I went · to Eton sent
To learn straightways · the Latin phrase
When fifty-three · stripes given to me
At once I had:
For fault but small · or none at all
It come to pass · thus beat I was.
See, Udall,[78] see · the mercy of thee
To me poor lad!”