"I am an English man and naked I stand here,Musying in my mynde what rayment I shall were;For now I will were thys, and now I will were that;Now I will were I cannot tell what.All new fashyons be plesaunt in me;I wyl haue them, whether I thryve or thee."
"I am an English man and naked I stand here,Musying in my mynde what rayment I shall were;For now I will were thys, and now I will were that;Now I will were I cannot tell what.All new fashyons be plesaunt in me;I wyl haue them, whether I thryve or thee."
"I am an English man and naked I stand here,
Musying in my mynde what rayment I shall were;
For now I will were thys, and now I will were that;
Now I will were I cannot tell what.
All new fashyons be plesaunt in me;
I wyl haue them, whether I thryve or thee."
From Andrew Boorde'sIntroduction(1541), andDyetary(1542), edited by F.J.F. for Early English Text Society, 1870, p. 116. (A most quaint and interesting volume, though I say so.)—Furnivall.
[129]This was in the time of general idleness.—H.
[130]At whose hands shall the blood of these men be required?—H.
[131]Law of the Marshal.—Furnivall.
[132]Here lacks.—H.
[133]"An innovation, has always mixed effects."
[134]The Lord Mountjoy.—H.
[135]Here ends the chapter entitled "Minerals," and the one on "Metals" begins.—W.
[136]Here follow two stories about crows and miners.—W.
[137]Some tell me that it is a mixture of brass, lead, and tin.—H.
[138]Tape.
[139]The proper English name of the bird which vulgar acceptance forces us to now callbittern.—W.
[140]Here ends the first chapter of "fowls," that which follows being restricted to "hawks and ravenous fowls."—W.
[141]This on "venomous beasts" will be found included in the "savage beasts" of the following.
[142]Here follows an account of the extermination of wolves, and a reference to lions and wild bulls rampant in Scotland of old.—W.
[143]Here follows a discourse on ancient boar hunting, exalting it above the degenerate sports of the day. This ends the chapter on "savage beasts."—W.
[144]Galenus,De Theriaca ad Pisonem; Pliny, lib. 10, cap. 62.—H.
[145]"The adder or viper alone among serpents brings forth not eggs but living creatures."
[146]Sallust, cap. 40, Pliny, lib. 37, cap. 2.—H.
[147]See Diodorus Siculus.—H.
[148]Here follows an account of Roman and Carthaginian galleys which "did not only match, but far exceed" in capacity our ships and galleys of 1587.—W.
[149]A name devised by her grace in remembrance of her own deliverance from the fury of her enemies, from which in one respect she was no less miraculously preserved than was the prophet Jonas from the belly of the whale.—H.
[150]So called of her exceeding nimbleness in sailing and swiftness of course.—H.
[151]Here follows a paragraph about the legendary foundation of the universities.—W.
[152]Cambridge burned not long since.—H.
[153]Here follows an account of Oxford and Cambridge castles, and the legend of the building of Osney Abbey by Robert and Edith D'Oyley.—W.
[154]This Fox builded Corpus Christi College, in Oxford.—H.
[155]So much also may be inferred of lawyers.—H.
[156]He founded also a good part of Eton College, and a free school at Wainfleet, where he was born.
Planned and Designed at The Collier PressBy William Patten