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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Eight of Saint Barnards verses, both in Latine
and English, with one note to them both.
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Eight of Saint Barnards verses, both in Latine and English, with one note to them both.
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Why so triumphes the world, in pompe and glorie vaine,Whose state so happie thought, so fickle doth remaine?
Whose brauerie slipprie stands, and doth so soone decaie:
As doth the potters pan, compact of brittle claie.
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More credite see thou giue, to letters wrote in ise,Than vnto vaine deceits, of brittle words deuise.
In gifts to vertue due, beguiling many one:
Yet those same neuer haue, long time to hope vpon.
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To false dissembling men, more trust is to be had,Than to the prosperous state, of wretched world so bad.
What with voluptuousnes, and other maddish toies:
False studies won with paine, false vanities and ioies.
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Tell where is Salomon, that once so noble was?Or where now Samson is, in strength whome none could pas?
Or woorthie Ionathas, that prince so louely bold?
Or faier Absolon, so goodlie to behold?
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Shew whither is Cæsar gone, which conquerd far and neere?Or that rich famous Carle, so giuen to bellie cheere?
Shew where is Tullie now, for eloquence so fit?
Or Aristoteles, of such a pregnant wit?
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O thou fit bait for wormes! O thou great heape of dust!O dewe! O vanitie! why so extolst thy lust?
Thou therefore ignorant, what time thou hast to liue:
Doo good to erie man, while here thou hast to giue.
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How short a feast (to count,) is this same worlds renowne?Such as mens shadowes be, such ioies it brings to towne.
Which alway plucketh vs, from Gods eternall blis:
And leadeth man to hell, a iust reward of his.
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The brauerie of this world, esteemed here so much,In Scripture likened is, to flowre of grasse and such.
Like as the leafe so light, through winde abrode is blowne:
So life in this our life, full soone is ouerthrowne.
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