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 description of time, and the yeare.
Chap. 23.
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God to thy dooings, a time there is sent,
which endeth with time, that in dooing is spent.
For time is it selfe, but a time for a time:
forgotten ful soone, as the tune of a chime.
which endeth with time, that in dooing is spent.
For time is it selfe, but a time for a time:
forgotten ful soone, as the tune of a chime.
In Spring time we reare, we doo sowe, and we plant,
in Sommer get vittels, least after we want.
In Haruest, we carie in corne, and the fruit:
in Winter to spend, as we neede of ech suit.
in Sommer get vittels, least after we want.
In Haruest, we carie in corne, and the fruit:
in Winter to spend, as we neede of ech suit.
The yeere I compare, as I find for a truth,
the Spring vnto childhood, the Sommer to youth.
The Haruest to manhood, the Winter to age:
all quickly forgot, as a play on a stage.
the Spring vnto childhood, the Sommer to youth.
The Haruest to manhood, the Winter to age:
all quickly forgot, as a play on a stage.
Time past is forgotten, er men be aware,
time present is thought on, with woonderfull care.
Time comming is feared, and therefore we saue:
yet oft er it come, we be gone to the graue.
time present is thought on, with woonderfull care.
Time comming is feared, and therefore we saue:
yet oft er it come, we be gone to the graue.
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