Note E140 — 29.
Reading edition
"Then lightly," an old form of expression. Tusser means that poor people are then probably or generally most sorely oppressed. Cf. "Short summer lightly has a forward spring."—Shakspere, Richard III. Act iii. sc. 1.
Reading edition
"Then lightly," an old form of expression. Tusser means that poor people are then probably or generally most sorely oppressed. Cf. "Short summer lightly has a forward spring."—Shakspere, Richard III. Act iii. sc. 1.