Note E33 — 10.
Reading edition
"In this quatrain all the later editions of our author read uniformly misers for michers (thieves or pilferers). What kind of misers 'unthriftiness' would make never seems to have been considered. 'Careless and rash' is a gallicism for carelessness and rashness."—M. "Mychare, capax, cleps, furunculus."—Prompt. Parv.
"Mychers, hedge crepers, fylloks and lushes, That all the somer kepe dyches and bushes." —The Hyeway to the Spytell House, ed. Atterson, ii. 11.
See also Townley Mysteries, pp. 216, 308. "Caqueraffe, a base micher, scurvie hagler, lowsie dodger, etc. Caqueduc, a niggard, micher, etc."—Cotgrave.