fat kernes, and leany knaves

O, who would inhabit this bleak world alone?

Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.

The next work is racking or tentering the cloth […] and this is performed by setting it in a frame, which we call tenters, such as are to be seen in many fields about London, wherein (it having a windless at one end) it is first strained to its length, then afterwards to its breadth and parallelism […]