Note 20 — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.

Thus altered in "Recreations for ingenious Head Pieces; or a pleasant Grove for their Wits to walk in, etc.," 8vo. 1644:—

"Tusser, they tell me, when thou wert alive Thou, teaching thrift, thyself could'st never thrive: So, like the whetstone, many men are wont, To sharpen others, when themselves are blunt."