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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
Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580)

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A lesson how to confer euery abstract with his month, and how to finde out huswiferie verses by the Pilcrowe, and Champion from Woodland.
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The Authors Epistle to the late Lord William Paget, wherein he doth discourse of his owne bringing vp, and of the goodnes of the said Lord his master vnto him, and the occasion of this his booke, thus set forth of his owne long practise.
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To the right Honorable and my speciall good Lord and Master, the Lord Thomas Paget of Beaudesert, sone and heire to his late father deceased.
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To the Reader.
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[THE BOOKE OF HUSBANDRIE.]
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An introduction to the Booke of Husbandrie.
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A Preface to the buier of this booke.
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The commodities of Husbandrie.
 7. 
Chap. 7.
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The description of Husbandrie.
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The Ladder to thrift.
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Good husbandlie lessons worthie to be followed of such as will thriue.
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An habitation inforced better late than neuer, vpon these words, Sit downe Robin, and rest thee.
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The fermers dailie diet.
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A description of the properties of windes all the times of the yeere.
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Of the Planets.
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Septembers abstract.
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Septembers husbandrie.
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Octobers abstract.
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Octobers husbandrie.
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Nouembers abstract.
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Nouembers husbandrie.
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Decembers abstract.
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Decembers husbandrie.
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A digression to hospitalitie.
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A description of time, and the yeare.
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A description of life and riches.
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A description of house keeping.
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A description of the feast of the birth of Christ, commonly called Christmas.
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A description of apt time to spend.
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Against fantasticall scruplenes.
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Christmas husbandlie fare.
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A Christmas Caroll of the birth of Christ, vpon the tune of King Salomon.
  
[At Christmas be merie and thankfull withall]
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Ianuaries abstract.
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Ianuaries husbandrie.
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Februaries abstract.
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Februaries husbandrie.
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Marches abstract.
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Marches husbandrie.
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Aprils abstract.
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Aprils husbandrie.
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Maies abstract.
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Maies husbandrie.
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Iunes abstract.
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Iunes husbandrie.
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Iulies abstract.
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Iulies husbandrie.
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Augusts abstract.
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Augusts husbandrie.
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Corne Haruest equally deuided into ten partes.
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A briefe conclusion, where you may see, Ech word in the verse, to begin with a T.
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Mans age deuided here ye haue, By prentiships, from birth to his graue.
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Another diuision of the nature of mans age.
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Chap. 51.
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A comparison betweene Champion countrie and Seuerall.
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The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.
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A sonet against a slanderous tongue.
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A sonet vpon the Authors first seuen yeeres seruice.
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The Authours Dialogue betweene two Bachelers, of wiuing and thriuing by Affirmation and Obiection.
  
Wedded mans iudgement, Vpon the former argument.
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The points of Huswiferie, vnited to the comfort of Husbandrie, newly corrected and amplified with diuers good lessons for housholders to recreate the Reader, as by the Table at the end hereof, more plainlie may appeere. Set forth by Thomas Tusser Gentleman.
  
[For men a perfect vvarning]
  
The description of womans age by vj. times xiiij. yeeres prentiship, with a lesson to the same.
  
The Inholders posie.
  
Certaine table lessons.
  
Lessons for waiting seruants.
  
Husbandly posies for the hall.
  
Posies for the parler.
  
Posies for the gests chamber.
  
Posies for thine owne bed chamber.
  
A Sonet to the Ladie Paget.
  
Principall points of religion.
  
The Authors beliefe.
  
Of the omnipotencie of God, and debilitie of man.
  
Eleemosyna prodest homini in vita, in morte, & post mortem.
  
Malus homo, out of S. Augustine.
  
Of two sorts of men, the tone good, and tother bad, out of S. Augustine.
  
Diabolo cum resistitur, est vt formica: Cum verò eius suggestio recipitur, fortis est vt leo.
  
Eight of Saint Barnards verses, both in Latine and English, with one note to them both.
  
Of the Authors linked verses departing from Court to the countrie.
  
The Authors life.

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The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.

Chap. 53.

An enuious neighbour, is easie to finde,
His cumbersome fetches, are seldome behinde.
His hatred procureth, from naughtie to wurse,
His friendship like Iudas that carried the purse.
His head is a storehouse, with quarrels full fraught,
His braine is vnquiet, till all come to naught.
His memorie pregnant, old euils to recite,
His mind euer fixed, ech euill to requite.
His mouth full of venim, his lips out of frame,
His tongue a false witnes, his friend to defame.
His eies be promooters, some trespas to spie,
His eares be as spials, alarum to crie.
His hands be as tyrants, reuenging ech thing,
His feete at thine elbow, as serpent to sting.
His breast full of rancor, like Canker to freat,
His hart like a Lion, his neighbour to eat.
His gate like a sheepebiter, fleering aside,
His looke like a coxcombe, vp puffed with pride.
His face made of brasse, like a vice in a game,
His iesture like Dauus, whom Terence doth name.
His brag as Thersites, with elbowes abrode,
His cheekes in his furie, shall swell like a tode.
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His colour like ashes, his cap in his eies,
His nose in the aire, his snout in the skies.
His promise to trust to, as slipprie as ice,
His credit much like, to the chance of the dice.
His knowledge, or skill, is in prating too much,
His companie shunned, and so be all such.
His friendship is counterfait, seldome to trust,
His dooings vnluckie, and euer vniust.
His fetch is to flatter, to get what he can,
His purpose once gotten, a pin for thee than.
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