Note 29 — Chapter VIII · OMENS, CHARMS, RECIPES
Reading edition
The Gospelles of Distaues, published by Wynkyn de Worde about 1530, contains the following:—‘If it happen that somebody stride over a little childe, know ye for certain that it shall never grow more, but if (unless) they stride backward over it again. Gloss: Certainly, said Sebylle, of such thing cometh dwarfs and little women.’