136. Three false sisters: 'perhaps,' 'may be,' 'I dare say.'
137. Three timid brothers: 'hush!' 'stop!' 'listen!'
138. Three dead things that give evidence on live things: a pair of scales, a bushel, a measuring-rod.
[139.] Three pottages of guaranteeing....[87]
[87] Obscure and probably corrupt. Cf. § 219.
[140.] Three black husbandries: thatching with stolen things,[88] putting up a fence with a proclamation of trespass, kiln-drying with scorching.
[88] 'with sods,' NML, perperam.
[141.] Three after-sorrows: a wooer's, a thief's, a tale-bearer's.
[142.] Three sons whom folly bears to anger: frowning, ... ,[89] mockery (?).
[89] fidchell, the well-known game, gives no sense here.