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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Note E441 — 81.

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"Droie." See Note in Prompt. Parv., s.v. Dryvylle and Deye. Probably a corruption of droile; a scullion, kitchen-boy, or servant of all-work.—M. Droie also occurs in Stubbes' Anatomie of Abuses, 1583.

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