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 |  |
Augusts abstract.
Chap. 45.
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Thry fallowing won,get compassing don.
2
In Iune and in Awe,swinge brakes (for a lawe)
3
Pare saffron plot,forget it not.
His dwelling made trim,
looke shortly for him.
When haruest is gon,
then saffron comes on.
4
A little of ground,brings saffron a pound.
The pleasure is fine,
the profit is thine.
Keepe colour in drieng,
well vsed woorth buieng.
5
Maids, mustard seed reape,and laie on a heape.
6
Good neighbors in deede,change seede for seede.
7
Now strike vp drum,cum haruest man cum.
Take paine for a gaine,
one knaue mars twaine.
8
Reape corne by the day,least corne doo decay.
By great is the cheaper,
if trustie were reaper.
9
Blowe horne for sleapers,and cheere vp thy reapers.
10
Well dooings who loueth,thes haruest points proueth.
11
Paie Gods part furst,and not of the wurst.
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Now Parson (I say,)tith carrie away.
13
Keepe cart gap weele,scare hog from wheele.
14
Mowe hawme to burne,to serue thy turne.
To bake thy bread,
to burne vnder lead.
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15
Mowne hawme being dry,no longer let ly.
Get home thy hawme,
whilst weather is cawme.
16
Mowne barlie lesse cost,ill mowne much lost.
17
Reape barlie with sickle,that lies in ill pickle.
Let greenest stand,
for making of band.
Bands made without dew,
will hold but a few.
18
Laie band to find her,two rakes to a binder.
19
Rake after sieth,and pay thy tieth.
Corne carried all,
then rake it ye shall.
20
Let shock take sweate,least gofe take heate.
Yet it is best reason,
to take it in season.
21
More often ye turne,more pease ye out spurne.
Yet winnow them in,
er carrege begin.
22
Thy carting plie,while weather is drie.
23
Bid gouing (clim)goue iust and trim.
Laie wheat for seede,
to come by at neede.
Seede barelie cast,
to thresh out last.
24
Lay pease vpon stack,if houell ye lack.
And couer it straight,
from doues that waight.
25
Let gleaners gleane,(the poore I meane.)
Which euer ye sowe,
that first eate lowe.
The other forbare,
for rowen to spare.
26
Come home lord singing,com home corne bringing.
Tis merie in hall,
when heards wag all.
27
Once had thy desire,pay workman his hire.
Let none be beguilde,
man, woman, nor childe.
28
Thanke God ye shall,and adue for all.
Works after haruest.
29
Get tumbrell in hand,for barlie land.
30
The better the muck,the better good luck.
31
Still carrege is good,for timber and wood.
No longer delaies,
to mend the high waies.
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Some loue as a iewell,well placing of fewell.
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In piling of logs,make houell for hogs.
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Wife, plow doth crie,to picking of rie.
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Such seede as ye sowe,such reape or else mowe.
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Take shipping or ride,Lent stuffe to prouide.
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Let haberden lie,in peasestraw drie.
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When out ye ride,leaue a good guide.
39
Some profit spie out,by riding about.
Marke now thorow yeere,
what cheape, what deere.
40
Some skill doth well,to buie and to sell.
Of theefe who bieth,
in danger lieth.
41
Commoditie knowne,abrode is blowne.
42
At first hand bie,at third let lie.
43
Haue monie prest,to buie at the best.
44
Some cattle home bring,for Mihelmas spring.
By hauke and hound,
small profit is found.
45
Dispatch, looke home,to loitring mome.
Prouide or repent,
milch cow for Lent.
46
Now crone your sheepe,fat those ye keepe.
Leaue milking old cow,
fat aged vp now.
47
Sell butter and cheese,good Faires few leese.
At Faires go bie,
home wants to supplie.
48
If hops looke browne,go gather them downe.
But not in the deaw,
for piddling with feaw.
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Of hops this knack,a meanie doo lack.
Once had thy will,
go couer his hill.
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Take hop to thy dole,but breake not his pole.
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Learne here (thou strāger)to frame hop manger.
52
Hop poles preserue,againe to serue.
Hop poles by and by,
long safe vp to dry.
Least poles wax scant,
new poles go plant.
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The hop kell dride,will best abide.
Hops dried in loft,
aske tendance oft.
And shed their seedes,
much more than needes.
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Hops dride small cost,ill kept halfe lost.
Hops quickly be spilt,
take heede if thou wilt.
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Some come, some go,this life is so.
Thus endeth Augusts abstract, agreeing with Augusts husbandrie.
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