Iulies husbandrie.
Chap 44.
No tempest good Iulie,
Least corne lookes rulie.
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
1
Go
muster thy seruants, be captaine thy selfe,
prouiding them weapon, and other like pelfe.
Get bottles and wallets, keepe field in the heat:
the feare is as much, as the danger is great.
2
With tossing and raking, and setting on cox,
grasse latelie in swathes, is hay for an ox.
That done, go and cart it, and haue it away:
the battel is fought, ye haue gotten the day.
3
Pay iustly thy tithes, whatsoeuer thou bee,
that God may in blessing, send foison to thee.
Though Uirar be bad, or the Parson as euill:
go not for thy tithing, thy selfe to the Deuill.
4
Let hay be well made, or auise else auouse,
for molding in goef, or of firing the house.
Lay coursest aside, for the ox and the cow:
the finest for sheepe, atd thy gelding alow.
5
Then downe with the hedlonds, that groweth about,
leaue neuer a dallop, vnmowne and had out.
Though grasse be but thin, about barlie and pease:
yet picked vp cleane, ye shall find therein ease.
6
Thry fallow betime, for destroieng of weede,
least thistle and duck, fall a blooming and seede.
Such season may chance, it shall stand thee vpon:
to till it againe, er an Sommer be gon.
7
Not rent off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife,
for hindering stalke, of hir vegetiue life.
Gathering of garden beanes.
So gather the lowest, and leauing the top:
shall teach thee a trick, for to double thy crop.
8
Wife pluck fro thy seed hemp, the fiemble hemp clene,
this looketh more yellow, the other more grene.
Use ton for thy spinning, leaue Mihel the tother:
for shoo thred and halter, for rope and such other.
9
Now pluck vp thy flax, for the maidens to spin,
first see it dried, and timelie got in.
And mowe vp thy branke, and away with it drie:
and howse it vp close, out of danger to lie.
10
While wormwood hath seed, get a handful or twaine,
Worme wood get against fleas and infection.
to saue against March, to make flea to refraine.
Where chamber is sweeped, and wormwood is strowne:
no flea for his life, dare abide to be knowne.
11
What sauer is better (if physick be true)
for places infected, than wormwood and rue?
It is as a comfort, for hart and the braine:
and therefore to haue it, it is not in vaine.
12
Get grist to the mill, to haue plentie in store,
Be sure of bread & drinke for haruest.
least miller lack water, as many doo more.
The meale the more yeeldeth, if seruant be true:
and miller that tolleth, take none but his due.
Thus endeth Iulies husbandrie.
