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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Against fantasticall scruplenes.
Chap. 28.
At
this time, & that time, some make a great matter,
som help not, but hinder ye poore with their clatter.
Take custome from feasting, what commeth then last?
where one hath a dinner, a hundred shall fast.
som help not, but hinder ye poore with their clatter.
Take custome from feasting, what commeth then last?
where one hath a dinner, a hundred shall fast.
To dog in the manger, some liken I could,
that hay will eate none, nor let other that would.
Some scarce in a yeere, giue a dinner or twoo:
nor well can abide, any other to doo.
that hay will eate none, nor let other that would.
Some scarce in a yeere, giue a dinner or twoo:
nor well can abide, any other to doo.
Play thou the good fellow, seeke none to misdeeme,
disdaine not the honest, though merie they seeme.
For oftentimes seene, no more verie a knaue:
than he that doth counterfait, most to be graue.
disdaine not the honest, though merie they seeme.
For oftentimes seene, no more verie a knaue:
than he that doth counterfait, most to be graue.
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