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 |
Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie | ||
Other short remembrances.
Get pulling hooke (sirs)
for broome and firs.
Pluck broome, broome still,
cut broome, broome kill.
for broome and firs.
Pluck broome, broome still,
cut broome, broome kill.
Broome pluckt by and by,
breake vp for rie.
Friend ringle thy hog,
or looke for a dog.
breake vp for rie.
Friend ringle thy hog,
or looke for a dog.
In casting prouide,
for seede lay aside.
Get doong, friend mine,
for stock and vine.
for seede lay aside.
Get doong, friend mine,
for stock and vine.
If earth be not soft.
go dig it aloft.
For quamier get bootes,
stub alders and rootes.
go dig it aloft.
For quamier get bootes,
stub alders and rootes.
Hop poles waxe scant,
for poles mo plant.
Set chestnut and walnut,
set filbeard and smalnut.
for poles mo plant.
Set chestnut and walnut,
set filbeard and smalnut.
Peach, plumtree and cherie,
yoong bay and his berie.
Or set their stone,
vnset leaue out none.
yoong bay and his berie.
Or set their stone,
vnset leaue out none.
Sowe kirnels to beare,
of apple and peare.
All trees that beare goom,
set now as they coom.
of apple and peare.
All trees that beare goom,
set now as they coom.
Now set or remooue,
such stocks as ye looue.
such stocks as ye looue.
Here ends Ianuaries short remembrances.
Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie | ||