Note E38 — 10.
Reading edition
"So, twentie lode bushes," etc. So, without proper management, twenty loads of bushes may be so wasted as only to serve for the stopping of a single gap.
"A" = one, a single: a very common use in Early English; cf. William of Nassington's "Myrrour of Lyfe," lines 2, 3;
"Fader and Sonne and Haly Gaste That er a God als we trowe maste"—that is, one God.