3 DECEMBER 1910, Page 16

WELSHMEN AND BUDGETS.

[TO THE EDITOR OP TIER "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I was reading to-day in an old book, "The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge," by Andrew Borde, 1513, who gives " doggrel rimes" (as he calls them himself) about the various nations he had seen. These verses seem to contain a prophecy :— " I am a Welshman, and do dwel in Wales I have loued to serche budgets, & looke in males I loue not to labour, nor to delue nor to dyg My fyngers be lymed lyke a lyme twyg And wherby ryches I do not greatly set Syth all bys fysshe that commeth to the net."

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