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 362 SOME ROGUERIES OF and gownes of a meetely length furred with lombe most commonly.' 1 'In primetyme, Ptholomeus 2 kepte himselfe ' likewise ' metely well clothed,' and used lamb's wool to fur his gown, but was clad 'with thyn vestures^ dowblets of silke.' In winter, however, like the shepherds, 3 ' as Ptholomeus dyd the Astronomyers 4 nowe doth ' they were clothed ' in thycke gownes of rough clothe.' In general the headings are made clearer in Wyer's ' Compost,' and the text has been slightly modified in the direction of lucidity. There are some bad guesses apparently efforts to correft the text lying before Wyer's editor: [a man is ill when he] ' sweteth not often' (Pynson, 1506; Sommer, p. 109, 1. 12), misprinted ' sheweth not often' (Notary, 1518; De Worde, 1528); cor- rected to ' spueth ofte ' (fol. e i refto). 'It prouffy teth moche ... to fyxe and emoroides' (Pynson, 1506; Sommer, p. 105,!. 27; same in 1518 and 1528) i.e. to flyxe, flux is changed to 'delay the emoroydes' (fol. d3 retto). Ozyron, a misprint for oryzon [horizon], and braunches for haunches, are made consistently incorre<5l in Wyer; and these, with other characteristics, indicate that his text filiates from Notary's 1518 edition through De Worde's of 1528/5 The ' Kalender of Shepardes ' was an attractive but costly book, and it was natural for Wyer to adapt it after his manner to his public ; but why should the doorstep of Ptolemy have been chosen 1 Sommer, p. 112. 2 * Compost,' fol. 04 verso. 3 Sommer, p. 114. 4 fol. f I verso. 5 The 1528 De Worde is in the Bodleian Library.