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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A comparison betweene good huswiferie and euill.
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A comparison betweene good huswiferie and euill.
Comparing togither, good huswife with bad,
The knowledge of either, the better is had.
The knowledge of either, the better is had.
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Il huswiferie lieth,till nine of the clock.
Good huswiferie trieth:
to rise with the cock.
2
Ill huswiferie tooteth,to make hir selfe braue.
Good huswiferie looketh:
what houshold must haue.
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Ill huswiferie trusteth,to him and to hir.
Good huswiferie lusteth:
hir selfe for to stir.
4
Ill huswiferie careth,for this nor for that.
Good huswiferie spareth:
for feare ye wot what.
5
Ill huswiferie pricketh,hir selfe vp in pride.
Good huswiferie tricketh:
hir house as a bride.
6
Ill huswiferie othing,or other must craue.
Good huswiferie nothing:
but needfull will haue.
7
Ill huswiferie mooueth,with gossep to spend.
Good huswiferie looueth:
hir houshold to tend.
8
Il huswiferie wanteth,with spending too fast.
Good huswiferie canteth:
the lenger to last.
9
Ill huswiferie easeth,hir selfe with vnknowne.
Good huswiferie pleaseth:
hir selfe with hir owne.
10
Il huswiferie brooketh,mad toies in hir hed.
Good huswiferie looketh:
that all things be fed.
11
Il huswifrie bringeth,a shilling to naught.
Good huswiferie singeth:
hir cofers full fraught.
12
Il huswiferie rendeth,and casteth aside.
Good huswiferie mendeth:
else would it go wide.
13
Il huswifrie sweepeth,hir linnen to gage.
Good huswiferie keepeth:
to serue hir in age.
14
Il huswiferie craueth,in secret to borow.
Good huswiferie saueth:
to day for to morow.
15
Ill huswiferie pineth,not hauing to eate.
Good huswiferie dineth:
with plentie of meate.
16
Ill huswiferie letteth,the Diuell take all.
Good huswiferie setteth:
good brag of a small.
Good huswife, good fame hath, of best in the towne:
Ill huswife, ill name hath, of euerie clowne.
Ill huswife, ill name hath, of euerie clowne.
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