A wide flat field is "finer” than rugged terrain for it can be tilled easily to produce wheat and so represents good white bread. A small thatched cottage, which a modern viewer might consider pretty, will be considered unattractive by an Elizabethan traveler, for cottagers are generally poor
Shrew usually means an angered or a bad-tempered person.
It's Rebuff
since reboof and rebaff are not words
