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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Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie | ||
A description of the feast of the birth of Christ, commonly called Christmas.
Chap. 26.
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Christ cōmeth Christmas, the name with ye feast,
a time full of ioie, to the greatest and least.
At Christmas, was Christ (our Sauiour) borne:
the world through sinne, altogether forlorne.
a time full of ioie, to the greatest and least.
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the world through sinne, altogether forlorne.
At Christmas the daies, doo begin to take length,
of Christ, doth religion, cheefly take strength.
As Christmas is onely, a figure or trope:
so onely in Christ, is the strength of our hope.
of Christ, doth religion, cheefly take strength.
As Christmas is onely, a figure or trope:
so onely in Christ, is the strength of our hope.
At Christmas we banket, the rich with the poore,
who then (but the miser) but openeth is doore?
At Christmas of Christ, many Carols we sing:
and giue many gifts, in the ioy of that King.
who then (but the miser) but openeth is doore?
At Christmas of Christ, many Carols we sing:
and giue many gifts, in the ioy of that King.
At Christmas in Christ, we reioice, and be glad,
as onely of whom, our comfort is had.
At Christmas we ioy, altogether with mirth:
for his sake, that ioyed vs all with his birth.
as onely of whom, our comfort is had.
At Christmas we ioy, altogether with mirth:
for his sake, that ioyed vs all with his birth.
Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie | ||