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 to the Ladie Paget.
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A Sonet to the Ladie Paget.
Some
pleasures take,
and cannot giue,
but onely make,
poore thanks their shift:
Some meaning well,
in debt doo liue,
and cannot tell,
how else to shift.
and cannot giue,
but onely make,
poore thanks their shift:
Some meaning well,
in debt doo liue,
and cannot tell,
how else to shift.
Some knock and faine,
would ope the doore,
to learne the vaine,
good turne to praise:
Some shew good face,
and be but poore,
yet haue a grace,
good fame to raise.
would ope the doore,
to learne the vaine,
good turne to praise:
Some shew good face,
and be but poore,
yet haue a grace,
good fame to raise.
Some owe and giue,
yet still in det,
and so must liue,
for aught I knowe:
Some wish to pay,
and cannot get,
but night and day,
still more must owe.
yet still in det,
and so must liue,
for aught I knowe:
Some wish to pay,
and cannot get,
but night and day,
still more must owe.
Euen so must I, for seruice past,
Still wish you good, while life doth last.
Still wish you good, while life doth last.
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