Authority Cited: Tusser
Author name and dates: Thomas Tusser (c.1524-1580)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 65 Tusser cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 163 cites in Dict. vol. 2. SJ appears to have not entered Tusser cites until the letter "F", with only a few cites added in earlier letters. The approximately 75 headwords sampled below are principally from "A' through "F," "L," and "W." About 8 Tusser cites were added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. No Tusser cites were identified as added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. The edition of Husbandry that SJ used is unknown. However, since SJ quotes from a note that appears in the 1710 and 1744 editions, I conclude that he used one of these editions. SJ may have used the notes, without attribution, in the explanation of obsolete headwords.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Tusser (c.1524-1580)
BKG Bio-tweet: Chorister; Oxford; 10 years as Court musician; then farmer; then college servant; Husbandry poem also records Tudor proverbs
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 65 Tusser cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 163 cites in Dict. vol. 2. SJ appears to have not entered Tusser cites until the letter "F", with only a few cites added in earlier letters. The approximately 75 headwords sampled below are principally from "A' through "F," "L," and "W." About 8 Tusser cites were added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. No Tusser cites were identified as added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. The edition of Husbandry that SJ used is unknown. However, since SJ quotes from a note that appears in the 1710 and 1744 editions, I conclude that he used one of these editions. SJ may have used the notes, without attribution, in the explanation of obsolete headwords.]
- Five hundred points of husbandry: directing what corn, grass, &c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved: with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year. By Thomas Tusser, Esq; To which are added notes and observations explaining many obsolete terms used therein, and what is agreeable to the present Practice in several Counties of this Kingdom. A Work very necessary and useful for Gentlemen, as well as Occupiers of Land, whether Wood-Ground or Tillage and Pasture. 1744, London : printed for M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row ; and sold by John Duncan in Berkley-Square, near Grovesnor-Street. An earlier edition is: Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry : vnited to as many of good huswiferie, first deuised, & nowe lately augmented with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps & gardening, and other needeful matters together, with an abstract before euery moneth, conteining the whole effect of the sayd moneth with a table & a preface in the beginning both necessary to be reade, for the better vnderstanding of the booke. Set forth by Thomas Tusser gentleman, seruant to the honorable Lord Paget of Beudesert. 1573, London: In Flete strete within Temple barre, at the signe of the Hand & starre by Rychard Toitell. The first edition was A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie, 1557 London: printed for M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row and sold by John Duncan in Berkley-Square, near Grovesnor-Street.; addle (added in 1773 Dict.); carle (added in 1773 Dict.); climber (added in 1773 Dict.); crone (added in 1773 Dict.); cog (added in 1773 Dict.); crotch (added in 1773 Dict.); dallop; earth; edder; embering; fan; far; farrow; fee; fellowlike/fellowly; fet; fetch; fey; filch; filly; fimble; fitch; flawn (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as wake); flea; flote; foison (2); foistiness; for; forbearer; fork; fritter; froth; frower; furmenty; further; furze (sp. furz in 1773 Dict.); gap; geld; gelder; gentile; get; go; goel; gove; to gove; graff/graft; grass; great; grist; growthnol (growthead); grutch; hand-barrow; harrow; harvest-lord; haum; ladder; lash; lay; leese; lift; light; ling; loiterer; lord (same quote as harvest-lord); losel; lubber; lurk; mane; rowen; sedge (not in 1773 Dict.); tidy; wafer; wake; wanty; weather; weedhook; wennel; whin; whiplash; whipt; whitemeat; whitleather; wing; wood; woodseere; workmanly; wriggle;
- Notes on Tusser; rowen; [There were 1710 and 1744 editions of Tusser's Husbandry with explanatory notes, SJ summarizes a note on p. 104 of the 1744 edition. The notes are by Daniel Hillman, according to the original Oxford DNB. I have found no information on Hillman.]
- Tusser of Singing Boys; breast (added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: this Tusser quote, "The better breast, the lesser rest" is quoted in the notes to Warburton's 1747 edition of Shakespeare (Twelfth Night). SJ used the Warburton text for his addition of notes by himself and previous Shakespeare editors in SJ's 1765 edition of Shakespeare's plays. The earlier Tusser source appears to be "The Author's Life" in early editions; an autobiographical description by Tusser of his childhood life as a choirboy. Found (2025) in the 1573 edition noted above. See stanza 6 in the 1573 and 1812 images below.]
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