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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An introduction to the Booke of Husbandrie.
Chap. 4.
Good
husbandmen, must moile and toile,
to laie to liue, by laboured feeld:
Their wiues at home, must keepe such coile,
as their like actes, may profit yeeld,
For well they knowe,
as shaft from bowe,
or chalke from snowe,
A good round rent, their Lords they giue,
and must keepe touch, in all their paie:
With credit crackt, else for to liue,
or trust to legs, and run awaie.
to laie to liue, by laboured feeld:
Their wiues at home, must keepe such coile,
as their like actes, may profit yeeld,
For well they knowe,
as shaft from bowe,
or chalke from snowe,
A good round rent, their Lords they giue,
and must keepe touch, in all their paie:
With credit crackt, else for to liue,
or trust to legs, and run awaie.
Though fence well kept, is one good point,
and tilth well done, in season due:
Yet needing salue, in time to annoint,
is all in all, and needfull true,
As for the rest,
thus thinke I best,
as friend doth gest,
With hand in hand, to leade thee foorth,
to Ceres campe, there to behold:
A thousand things, as richlie woorth,
as any pearle, is woorthie gold.
and tilth well done, in season due:
Yet needing salue, in time to annoint,
is all in all, and needfull true,
As for the rest,
thus thinke I best,
as friend doth gest,
With hand in hand, to leade thee foorth,
to Ceres campe, there to behold:
A thousand things, as richlie woorth,
as any pearle, is woorthie gold.
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