[194] Compare Stubs’s Anatomie, p. 218. Turnbull.—F.
[195] See Percy Folio, Loose and Humorous Songs, p. 86, l. 31-4.—F.
[196] We’ve unluckily lost the distinction between rabbit and coney.—F.
[197] Called “suckers” in Babees Book and Henry VIII.’s Household Ordinances.—F.
[198] See Andrew Boorde’s amusing bit about venison in his Dyetary (my edition, p. 275).—F.
[199] Harrison was not quite up to the Dignity of Labour.—F.
[200] The decay of the people is the destruction of a kingdom: neither is any man born to possess the earth alone.—H.
[201] The fact is well known. See instances in W. de Worde’s “Kerving,” second edition, in Babees Book.—F.
[202] See the curious tract on this in Mr. John Cowper’s Four Supplications, Early English Text Society, extra series.—F.
[203] The chapter ends with the forest laws of Canute. Born Londoner though he be, Harrison dwells lovingly upon the least point connected with his country home. His Saffron Walden is ever a fruitful source of discourse, Saffron being a prolific theme in other places of the work, and Walden here made to “point the moral and adorn the tale.”—W.