Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie as well for the Champion, or open countrie, as also for the woodland, or Seuerall, mixed in euerie Month with Huswiferie, ouer and besides the booke of Huswiferie, corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet for the fermer, of the properties of winds, planets, hops, herbes, bees, and approoued remedies for sheepe and cattle, with many other matters both profitable and not vnpleasant for the Reader. Also a table of husbandrie at the beginning of this booke: and another of huswiferie at the end: for the better and easier finding of any matter conteined in the same. Newly set foorth by Thomas Tusser |
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The good motherlie nurserie.
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The good motherlie nurserie.
Good huswiues take paine, and doo count it good luck,to make their owne brest, their owne childe to giue suck.
Though wrauling and rocking, be noisome so neare,
yet lost by ill nursing, is woorser to heare.
But one thing I warne thee, let huswife be nurse,
least husband doo find thee, too franke with his purse.
What hilback and filbellie, maketh away,
that helpe to make good, or else looke for a fraie.
Giue childe that is fitly, giue babie the big,
giue hardnes to youth, and to roperipe a twig.
We find it not spoken, so often for naught,
that children were better, vnborne than vntaught.
Some cockneies with cocking, are made verie fooles,
fit neither for prentise, for plough, nor for schooles.
Teach childe to aske blessing, serue God, and to church,
then blesse as a mother, else blesse him with burch.
Thou huswife thus dooing, what further shall neede?
but all men to call thee, good mother in deede.
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