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 Authors beliefe.
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The Authors beliefe.
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This is my stedfast Creede, my faith and all my trust,That in the heauens there is a God, most mightie milde & iust:
A God aboue all gods, a King aboue all kings,
The Lord of lords, chiefe gouernour, of heauen and earthly things.
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That power hath of life, of death, of heauen and hell,That all thing made as pleaseth him, so woonderfull to tell:
That made the hanging Skies, so deckt with diuers lights,
Of darknes, made the cheerfull daies, and all our restfull nights.
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That clad this earth with herbe, with trees and sundrie fruites,With beast, with bird, both wild & tame, of strange & sundrie suites:
That intermixt the same, with mines like veines of Ore,
Of siluer, golde, of precious stones, and treasures many more.
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That ioyned brookes to dales, to hilles fresh water springs,With riuers sweete along the meedes, to profit many things:
That made the hoarie frosts, the flakie snowes so trim,
The honie deawes, the blustering windes, to serue as pleaseth him.
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That made the surging seas, in course to ebbe and flo,That skilfull man with sailing ship, mought trauell to and fro:
And stored so the same, for mans vnthankfull sake,
That euery nation vnder heauen, mought thereby profit take.
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That gaue to man a soule, with reason how to liue,That doth to him, and all things else, his blessing dailie giue:
That is not seene, yet seeth how man doth runne his race,
Whose dailie workes both good & bad, stand knowne before his face.
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That sendeth thundring claps, like terrours out of hell,That man may know a God there is, that in the heauens doth dwel:
That sendeth threatning plagues, to keepe our liues in awe,
His benefites if we forget, or do contemne his lawe.
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That dailie hateth sinne, and loueth vertue well,And is the God of Abraham, Isac, and Israell:
That doth displeasure take, when we his lawes offend,
And yet amids his heauie wrath, his mercie doth extend.
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This is that Lord of hostes, the father of vs all,The maker of what ere was made, my God on whom I call:
Which for the loue of man, sent downe his onelie sonne,
Begot of him before the worldes were any whit begonne.
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This, entred Maries wombe, as faith affirmeth sure,Conceiued by the holy Ghost, borne of that virgine pure:
This, was both God and man, of Iewes the hoped king,
And liued here, [illeg.] onely sinne, like man in euerie thing.
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This is that virgins childe, that same most holie Preist,The lamb of God, the prophet great, whom scripture calleth Christ:
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That should tread down the serpents head, & our attonement make.
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This, Iudas did betray to false dissembling Iewes,Which vnto Pilat being Iudge, did falsely him accuse:
Who (through that wicked Iudge) and of those Iewes despight,
Condemned and tormented was, with all the force they might.
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To liuing wight more euill, what could such wretches do?More pearcing wounds, more bitter pains, than they did put him to?
They crowned him with thorne, that was the king of kings,
That sought to saue the soule of man aboue all worldly things.
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This was that Pascall lambe, whose loue for vs so stood,That on the mount of Caluerie for vs did shed his blood:
Where hanging on the Crosse, no shame he did forsake,
Till death giuen him by pearcing speare, an ende of life did make.
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This Ioseph seeing dead, the bodie thence did craue,And tooke it forthwith from the crosse, and laid it in his graue:
Downe thence he went to hell, in vsing there his will,
His power I meane, his slained corps, in tumb remaining still.
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From death to life againe, the third day this did rise,And seene on earth to his elect, times oft in sundrie wise:
And after into heauen ascend he did in sight,
And sitteth on the right hand there, of God the father of might.
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Where, for vs wretches all, his father he doth pray,To haue respect vnto his death, and put our sinnes away:
From thence with sounded trump, which noise all flesh shall dread,
He shall returne with glorie againe, to iudge the quicke and dead.
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Then shall that voice be heard, Come, come, ye good to mee,Hence, hence to hell, you workers euill, where paine shall euer bee:
This is that louing Christ, whom I my Sauiour call,
And onely put my trust in him, and in none else at all.
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In God the holy Ghost I firmely do belieue,Which from the father and the sonne a blessed life doth giue:
Which by the Prophets spake, which doth all comfort send,
Which I do trust shall be my guide, when this my life shall ende.
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A holy catholike Church, on earth I graunt there is,And those which frame their liues by that, shall neuer do amis.
The head whereof is Christ, his word the chiefest post:
Preseruer of this temple great, is God the holy Ghost.
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I do not doubt there is, a multitude of Saints,More good is don resembling them, than shewing them our plaints:
Their faith and workes in Christ, that glorie them did giue,
Which glorie we shall likewise haue, if likewise we do liue.
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At God of heauen there is, forgiuenesse of our sinnes,Through Christes death, through faith in it, and through none other ginnes:
If we repentant here, his mercie dailie craue,
Through stedfast hope and faith in Christ, forgiuenes we shall haue.
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I hope and trust vpon, the rising of the flesh,This corps of mine that first must die, shall rise againe afresh:
The soule and bodie euen then, in one shall ioyned bee,
As Christ did rise from death to life, euē so through Christ shall wee.
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here we learne of God, that there be persons three,
The Father, Sonne, the holy Ghost, one God in trinitee.
In substance all like one, one God, one Lord, one might,
Whose persons yet we do diuide, and so we may by right.
The Father, Sonne, the holy Ghost, one God in trinitee.
In substance all like one, one God, one Lord, one might,
Whose persons yet we do diuide, and so we may by right.
As God the Father is, the maker of vs all,
So God the Sonne redeemer is, to whom for helpe we call.
And God the holy Ghost, the soule of man doth winne,
By moouing hir to waile for grace, ashamed of hir sinne.
So God the Sonne redeemer is, to whom for helpe we call.
And God the holy Ghost, the soule of man doth winne,
By moouing hir to waile for grace, ashamed of hir sinne.
This is that God of gods, whom euerie soule should loue,
Whō all mens hearts should quake for feare, his wrath on them to moue.
That this same mightie God, aboue all other chiefe,
Shall saue my soule from dolefull Hell, is all my whole beliefe.
Whō all mens hearts should quake for feare, his wrath on them to moue.
That this same mightie God, aboue all other chiefe,
Shall saue my soule from dolefull Hell, is all my whole beliefe.
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