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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A sonet vpon the Authors first seuen yeeres seruice.
Chap. 55.
Seuen times hath Ianus, tane new yeere by hand,Seuen times hath blustring March, blowne foorth his powre:
To driue out Aprils buds, by sea and land,
For minion Maie, to deck most trim with flowre.
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And pleasant Aestas, eke hir flowers told:
Seuen times Autumnes heate hath beene delaide,
With Hyems boistrous blasts, and bitter cold.
Seuen times the thirteene Moones haue changed hew,
Seuen times the Sunne, his course hath gone about:
Seuen times ech bird, hir nest hath built anew,
Since first time you to serue, I choosed out.
Still yours am I, though thus the time hath past:
And trust to be, as long as life shall last.
Man minded for to thriue,
must wiselie lay to wiue.
what hap may thereby fall:
here argued find ye shall.
must wiselie lay to wiue.
what hap may thereby fall:
here argued find ye shall.
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