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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Huswiferie.
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Huswiferie.
Morning vvorkes.
No sooner some vp,
But nose is in cup.
But nose is in cup.
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Get vp in the morning as soone as thou wilt,with ouerlong slugging good seruant is spilt.
2
Some slouens from sleeping no sooner get vp,but hand is in aumbrie, and nose in the cup.
That early is donne,
Count huswifely wonne.
Count huswifely wonne.
3
Some worke in the morning may trimly be donne,that all the day after can hardly be wonne.
4
Good husband without it is needfull there be,good huswife within as needfull as he.
Cast dust into yard,
And spin and go card.
And spin and go card.
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Sluts corners auoided shall further thy health,much time about trifles shall hinder thy wealth.
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Set some to peele hempe, or else rishes to twine,to spin and to card, or to seething of brine.
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Grind mault for drinke.
See meate do not stinke.
See meate do not stinke.
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Set some about cattle, some pasture to vewe,some mault to be grinding against ye do brewe.
8
Some corneth, some brineth, some will not be taught,Where meate is attainted, there cookrie is naught.
Breakefast doings.
To breakefast that come,
Giue erie one some.
Giue erie one some.
1
Call seruants to breakefast by day starre appere,a snatch and to worke fellowes tarrie not here.
2
Let huswife be caruer, let pottage be heate,a messe to eche one with a morsell of meate.
No more tittle tattle,
Go serue your cattle.
Go serue your cattle.
3
What tacke in a pudding, faith greedie gut wringer,Giue such ye wote what, ere a pudding he finger.
4
Let seruants once serued thy cattle go serue,least often ill seruing make cattle to sterue.
Huswifely admonitions.
1
No breakefast of custome prouide for to saue,But onely for such as deserueth to haue.
2
No shewing of seruant what vittles in store,shew seruant his labour, and shew him no more.
Of hauocke beware,
Cat nothing will spare.
Cat nothing will spare.
3
Where all thing is common, what needeth a hutch?Where wanteth a sauer, there hauocke is mutch.
4
Where window is open, cat maketh a fray,yet wilde cat with two legs is worse by my fay.
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Looke well vnto thine,
Slut slouthfull must whine.
Slut slouthfull must whine.
5
An eie in a corner, who vseth to haue,reuealeth a drab, and preuenteth a knaue.
6
Make maide to be clenly, or make hir crie creake,and teach hir to stirre, when hir mistresse doth speake.
Let hollie wand threate,
Let fisgig be beate.
Let fisgig be beate.
7
A wand in thy hand, though ye fight not at all,makes youth to their businesse, better to fall.
8
For feare of foole had I wist, cause thee to waile,let fisgig be taught, to shut doore after taile.
Too easie the wicket,
Will still appease clicket.
Will still appease clicket.
9
With hir that will clicket, make daunger to cope,least quickly hir wicket, seeme easie to ope.
10
As rod little mendeth, where maners be spilt,so naught will be naught, say and do what thou wilt.
Fight seldome ye shall,
But vse not to brall.
But vse not to brall.
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Much bralling with seruant, what man can abide?pay home when thou fightest, but loue not to chide.
12
As order is heauenly, where quiet is had,so error is hell, or a mischiefe as bad.
What better a lawe,
Than subiects in awe?
Than subiects in awe?
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Such awe as a warning, will cause to beware,doth make the whole houshold, the better to fare.
14
The lesse of thy counsell, thy seruants doe knowe,Their dutie the better, such seruants shall showe.
Good musicke regard,
Good seruants reward.
Good seruants reward.
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Such seruants are oftenest painfull and good,that sing in their labour, as birdes in thee wood.
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Good seruants hope iustly, some friendship to feele,and looke to haue fauour, what time they do weele.
By once or twise,
Tis time to be wise.
Tis time to be wise.
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Take runagate Robin, to pitie his neede,and looke to be filched, as sure as thy creede.
18
Take warning by once, that a worse do not hap,foresight is the stopper of many a gap.
Some change for a shift,
Oft change small thrift.
Oft change small thrift.
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Make fewe of thy counsell, to change for the best,least one that is trudging infecteth the rest.
20
The stone that is rolling, can gather no mosse,for maister and seruant, oft changing is losse.
Both liberall sticketh,
Some prouender pricketh.
Some prouender pricketh.
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One dog for a hog, and one cat for a mouse,one readie to giue, is ynough in a house.
22
One gift ill accepted, keepe next in thy purse,whom prouender pricketh are often the wurse.
Brewing.
Brew somewhat for thine,
Else bring vp no swine.
Else bring vp no swine.
1
Where brewing is needfull, be brewes thy selfe,what filleth the roofe, will helpe furnish the shelfe.
2
In buieng of drinke, by the firkin or pot,the tallie ariseth, but hog amendes not.
Well brewed, worth cost,
Ill vsed, halfe lost.
Ill vsed, halfe lost.
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One bushell well brewed outlasteth some twaine,and saueth both mault and expences in vaine.
4
Too new is no profite, too stale is as bad,drinke dead or else sower, makes laborer sad.
Remember good Gill,
Take paine with thy swill.
Take paine with thy swill.
5
Seeth grains in more water, while grains be yet hot,and stirre them in copper as poredge in pot.
6
Such heating with straw, to haue offall good store,both pleaseth and easeth, what would ye haue more?
Baking.
Newe bread is a driuell,
Much crust is as euill.
Much crust is as euill.
1
New bread is a waster, but mouldie is wurse,what that way dog catcheth, that loseth the purse.
2
Much dowebake I praise not, much crust is as ill,the meane is the Huswife, say nay if ye will.
Cookerie.
Good cookerie craueth,
Good turnebroch saueth.
Good turnebroch saueth.
1
Good cooke to dresse dinner, to bake and to brewe,deserues a rewarde being honest and trewe.
2
Good diligent turnebroch and trustie withall,is sometime as needfull as some in the hall.
Dairie.
Good dairie doth pleasure,
Ill dairie spendes treasure.
Ill dairie spendes treasure.
1
Good huswife in dairie that needes not be tolde,deserueth hir fee to be paid hir in golde.
2
Ill seruant neglecting what huswiferie saies,deserueth hir fee to be paid hir with baies.
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Good droie woorth much,
Marke sluts and such.
Marke sluts and such.
3
Good droie to serue hog, to helpe wash, and to milke,more needfull is truelie, than some in their silke.
4
Though homelie be milker, let cleanlie be cooke,for slut and a slouen, be knowne by their looke.
In dairie no cat,
Laie bane for a rat.
Laie bane for a rat.
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Though cat (a good mouser) doth dwell in a house,yet euer in dairie, haue trap for a mouse.
6
Take heede how thou laiest, the bane for the rats,for poisoning seruant, thy selfe and thy brats.
Scouring.
No scouring for pride,
Spare kettle whose side.
Spare kettle whose side.
1
Though scouring be needful, yet scouring too mutch,is pride without profit, and robbeth thine hutch.
2
Keepe kettles from knocks, set tubs out of Sun,for mending is costlie, and crackt is soone dun.
VVashing.
Take heede when ye wash,
Else run in the lash.
Else run in the lash.
1
Maids, wash well, & wring well, but beat ye wot how,if any lack beating, I feare it be yow.
2
In washing by hand, haue an eie to thy boll,for launders and millers, be quick of their toll.
Drie sunne, drie winde,
Safe binde, safe finde.
Safe binde, safe finde.
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Go wash well saith Sommer, with sunne I shal drie,go wring well saith Winter, with winde so shall I.
4
To trust without heede, is to venter a ioint,giue tale and take count, is a huswifelie point.
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Where many be packing,
Are manie things lacking.
Are manie things lacking.
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Where hens fall a cackling, take heede to their nest,when drabs fall a whispring, take heede to the rest.
6
Through negligēt huswifes, are many things lacking,and Gillet suspected, will quickly be packing.
Malting.
Ill malting is theft,
Wood dride hath a weft.
Wood dride hath a weft.
1
House may be so handsome, and skilfulnes such,to make thy owne malt, it shall profit thee much.
2
Som drieth with strawe, and some drieth with wood,wood asketh more charge, and nothing so good.
Take heede to the kell,
Sing out as a bell.
Sing out as a bell.
3
Be suer no chances, to fier can drawe,the wood or the furzen, the brake or the strawe.
4
Let Gillet be singing, it doth verie well,to keepe hir from sleeping, and burning the kell.
Best dride best speedes,
Ill kept bowd breedes.
Ill kept bowd breedes.
5
Malt being well speered, the more it will cast,malt being well dried, the longer will last.
6
Long kept in ill soller, (vndoubted thou shalt,)through bowds without nūber, loose quickly thy malt.
Dinner matters.
For hunger or thirst,
Serue cattle well first.
Serue cattle well first.
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By noone see your dinner, be readie and neate,let meate tarrie seruant, not seruant his meate.
2
Plough cattle a baiting, call seruant to dinner,the thicker togither, the charges the thinner.
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Togither is best,
For hostis and gest.
For hostis and gest.
3
Due season is best, altogither is gay,dispatch hath no fellow, make short and away.
4
Beware of Gill laggoose, disordring thy house,mo dainties, who catcheth, than craftie fed mouse?
Let such haue ynough,
That follow the plough.
That follow the plough.
5
Giue seruant no dainties, but giue him ynough,too many chaps walking, doo begger the plough.
6
Poore seggons halfe sterued, worke faintly and dull,and lubbers doo loiter, their bellies too full.
Giue neuer too much,
To lazie and such.
To lazie and such.
7
Feede lazie, that thresheth a flap and a tap,like slothfull, that all day be stopping a gap.
8
Some litherly lubber, more eateth than twoo,yet leaueth vndone, that another will doo.
Where nothing will last,
Spare such as thou hast.
Spare such as thou hast.
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Some cutteth thy linnen, some spoileth their broth,bare table to some, doth as well as a cloth.
10
Treene dishes be homely, and yet not to lack,Where stone is no laster, take tankard and iack.
Knap boy on the thums,
And saue him his crums.
And saue him his crums.
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That pewter is neuer for manerly feastes,that daily doth serue, so vnmanerly beastes.
12
Some gnaweth & leaueth, some crusts & some crums,eat such their own leuings, or gnaw their own thums
Serue God euer furst,
Take nothing at wurst.
Take nothing at wurst.
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At Dinner, at Supper, at morning, at night,giue thankes vnto God for his gifts so in sight.
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Good husband and huswife will sometime alone,make shift with a morsell, and picke of a bone.
Inough thou art tolde,
Too much will not holde.
Too much will not holde.
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Three dishes well dressed, and welcome withall,both pleaseth thy friend, and becommeth thine hall.
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Enough is a plentie, too much is a pride,the plough with ill holding goes quicklie aside.
After noone workes.
Make companie breake,
Go cherish the weake.
Go cherish the weake.
1
When Dinner is ended, set seruants to wurke,and follow such fellowes as loueth to lurke.
2
To seruant in sicknesse see nothing ye grutch,a thing of a trifle shall comfort him mutch.
Who manie do feede,
Saue much they had neede.
Saue much they had neede.
3
Put chippings in dippings, vse parings to saue,fat capons or chickens that lookest to haue.
4
Saue droppings and skimmings, how euer ye doo,for medcine for cattell, for cart, and for shoo.
Leane capon vnmeete,
Deere fed is vnsweete.
Deere fed is vnsweete.
5
Such of corne as commeth, giue wife to hir fee,feede willingly such as do helpe to feede thee.
6
Though fat fed is daintie, yet this I thee warne,be cunning in fatting for robbing thy barne.
Peece hole to defende,
Things timely amende.
Things timely amende.
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Good semsters be sowing of fine pretie knackes,good huswifes be mending and peecing their sackes.
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Though making and mending be huswifely waies,yet mending in time is the huswife to praies.
Buie newe as is meete,
Marke blanket and sheete.
Marke blanket and sheete.
9
Though Ladies may rend and buie new ery day,good huswifes must mend, and buie new as they may.
10
Call quarterly seruants, to court and to leete,write euerie Couerlet, Blanket, and Sheete.
Shift slouenly elfe,
Be gayler thy selfe.
Be gayler thy selfe.
11
Though shifting too oft be a theefe in a house,yet shift slut and slouen for feare of a louse.
12
Graunt doubtfull no key of his chamber in purse,least chamber doore lockt, be to theeuerie a nurse.
Saue feathers for gest.
These other rob chest.
These other rob chest.
13
Saue wing for a thresher, when Gander doth die,saue feather of all thing the softer to lie.
14
Much spice is a theefe, so is candle and fier,sweete sauce is as craftie as euer was frier.
Wife make thine owne candle,
Spare pennie to handle.
Spare pennie to handle.
15
Prouide for thy tallow, ere frost commeth in,and make thine owne candle ere winter begin.
16
If pennie for all thing be suffred to trudge,trust long, not to pennie, to haue him thy drudge.
Euening workes.
Time drawing to night,
See all things go right.
See all things go right.
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When hennes go to roost, go in hand to dresse meate,serue hogs, and to milking, and some to serue neate.
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Where twaine be ynow, be not serued with three,more knaues in a companie worser they bee.
Make lackey to trudge,
Make seruant thy drudge.
Make seruant thy drudge.
3
For euerie trifle leaue ianting thy nag,but rather make lackey of Iack boie thy wag.
4
Make seruant at night lug in wood or a log,let none come in emptie, but slut and thy dog.
False knaue readie prest,
All safe is the best.
All safe is the best.
5
Where pullen vse nightly, to pearch in the yard,there two legged foxes, keepe watches and ward.
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See cattle well serued, without and within,and all thing at quiet, ere supper begin.
Take heede it is needefull,
True pittie is meedefull.
True pittie is meedefull.
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No clothes in garden, no trinkets without,no doore leaue vnbolted, for feare of a dout.
8
Thou woman whom pitie becommeth the best,graunt all that hath laboured, time to take rest.
Supper matters.
Vse mirth and good woorde,
bed and at boorde.
bed and at boorde.
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Prouide for thy husband, to make him good cheere,make merrie togither, while time ye be heere.
2
At bed and at boord, howsoeuer befall,what euer God sendeth, be merrie withall.
No brawling make,
No ielousie take.
No ielousie take.
3
No taunts before seruants, for hindring of fame,no iarring too loude, for auoyding of shame.
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As fransie and heresie roueth togither,so iealousie leadeth a foole ye wot whither.
Tend such as ye haue,
Stop talkatiue knaue.
Stop talkatiue knaue.
5
Yong children and chickens, would euer be eating,good seruants looke dulie for gentle intreating.
6
No seruant at table vse saufly to talke,least tongue set at large out of measure do walke.
No snatching at all,
Sirs hearken now all.
Sirs hearken now all.
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No lurching, no snatching, no striuing at all,least one go without, and another haue all.
8
Declare after Supper, take heede thereunto,what worke in the morning ech seruant shall do.
After supper matters.
Thy soule hath a clog,
Forget not thy dog.
Forget not thy dog.
1
Remember those children, whose parents be poore,which hunger, yet dare not craue at thy doore.
2
Thy Bandog that serueth for diuerse mishaps,forget not to giue him thy bones and thy scraps.
Make keies to be keepers,
To bed ye sleepers.
To bed ye sleepers.
3
Where mouthes be many, to spend that thou hast,set keies to be keepers for spending too fast.
4
To bed after supper, let drousie go sleepe,least knaue in the darke to his marrow do creepe.
Keepe keies as thy life,
Feare candle good wife.
Feare candle good wife.
5
Such keies lay vp safe, ere ye take ye to rest,of dairie, of buttrie, of cubboord and chest.
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Feare candle in hailoft, in barne, and in shed,feare flea smocke, & mendbreech, for burning their bed.
See doore lockt fast,
Two keies make wast.
Two keies make wast.
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A doore without locke is a baite for a knaue,a locke without key, is a foole that will haue.
8
One key to two locks, if it breake is a greefe,two keies to one locke, in the ende is a theefe.
Night workes troubles hed,
Locke doores and to bed.
Locke doores and to bed.
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The day willeth done, whatsoeuer ye bid,the night is a theefe, if ye take not good hid.
10
Wash dishes, lay leauens, saue fire and away,locke doores and to bed, a good huswife will say.
To bed know thy guise.
To rise do likewise.
To rise do likewise.
Loue so as ye may,
Loue many a day.
Loue many a day.
Be lowly not sollen, if ought go amisse,
what wresting may loose thee, that winne with a kisse.
Both beare and forebeare, now and then as ye may:
then wench God a mercie, thy husband will say.
what wresting may loose thee, that winne with a kisse.
Both beare and forebeare, now and then as ye may:
then wench God a mercie, thy husband will say.
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