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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To the right Honorable and my especiall good Ladie and Maistres, the Ladie Paget.
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To the right Honorable and my especiall good Ladie and Maistres, the Ladie Paget.
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Though danger be mickle,and fauour so fickle,
Yet dutie doth tickle,
my fansie to wright:
Concerning how prettie,
how fine and how nettie,
Good huswife should iettie,
from morning to night.
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Not minding by writing,to kindle a spiting,
But shew by enditing,
as afterward told:
How husbandrie easeth,
to huswiferie pleaseth,
And manie purse greaseth,
with siluer and gold.
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For husbandrie weepeth,where huswiferie sleepeth,
And hardly he creepeth,
vp ladder to thrift:
That wanteth to bold him,
thrifts ladder to hold him,
Before it be told him,
he falles without shift.
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Least many should feare me,and others forsweare me,
Of troth I doo beare me,
vpright as ye see:
Full minded to looue all,
and not to reprooue all,
But onely to mooue all,
good huswiues to bee.
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For if I should mind some,or descant behind some,
And missing to find some,
displease so I mought:
Or if I should blend them,
and so to offend them,
What stur I should send them,
I stand in a dought,
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Though harmles ye make it,and some doo well take it,
If others forsake it,
what pleasure were that?
Naught else but to paine me,
and nothing to gaine me,
But make them disdaine me,
I wot ner for what.
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Least some make a triall,as clocke by the diall,
Some stand to deniall,
some murmur and grudge:
Giue iudgement I pray you,
for iustlie so may you,
So fansie, so say you,
I make you my iudge.
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In time, ye shall try me,by troth, ye shall spy me,
So finde, so set by me,
according to skill:
How euer tree groweth,
the fruit, the tree showeth,
Your Ladiship knoweth,
my hart and good will.
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Thogh fortune doth measure,and I doo lacke treasure,
Yet if I may pleasure,
your Honour with this:
Then will me to mend it,
or mend er ye send it,
Or any where lend it,
if ought be amis.
Your Ladiships seruant, Thomas Tusser.
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