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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Note E446 — 85.

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"Enough is a plentie." Cf. "Mesure is medcyne þouȝ þow moche ȝerne."—Piers Plowman, Passus i. 35. "But mesure is a meri mene, þouȝ men moche ȝerne."—Richard the Redeles, E.E. Text Soc., ed. Skeat, ii. 139. "Measure is treasure."—Dyce's Skelton, ii. 238, 241. "Enough is as good as a feast."—Gascoigne's Posies, 1575.

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