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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Note E451 — 89.

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"Guise."

"For he was laid in white Sheep's wool New pulled from tanned Fells; And o'er his Head hang'd Spiders webs As they had been Bells. Is this the Country Guise, thought he? Then here I will not stay." —Ballad, K. Alfred and the Shepherd.

"'Tis thy Country Guise, I see, To be thus bluntish still." —Ibid.

"The Norman guise was to walke and jet up and downe the streets."—Lambert's Peramb. of Kent, 1826, p. 320.

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