Maies abstract.
Chap. 39.
1
Put
lambe from eawe,
to milke a feawe.
2
Be not too bold,
to milke and to f old.
3
Fiue eawes alow,
to euerie cow.
4
Sheepe wrigling taile,
hath mads without faile.
5
Beat hard in the reede,
where house hath neede.
6
Leaue cropping from May
to Mihelmas day.
Let Iuie be killed,
else tree will be spilled.
7
Now threshers warne,
to rid the barne.
8
Be suer of hay,
till thend of May.
9
Let sheepe fill flanke,
where corne is too ranke.
In woodland leuer,
in champion neuer.
10
To weeding away,
as soone as yee may.
11
For corne here reede,
what naughtie weede.
12
Who weeding stacketh,
good husbandrie lacketh.
13
Sowe buck or branke,
that smels so ranke.
14
Thy branke go and sowe,
where barlie did growe.
The next crop wheat,
is husbandrie neat.
15
Sowe pescods some,
for haruest to come.
16
Sowe hemp and flacks,
that spinning lacks.
17
Teach hop to clime,
for now it is time.
18
Through fowles & weedes,
poore hop ill speedes.
Cut off or crop,
superfluous hop.
The titters or tine,
makes hop to pine.
19
Some raketh their wheat,
with rake that is great.
So titters and tine,
be gotten out fine.
20
Now sets doe craue,
some weeding to haue.
21
Now draine as ye like,
both fen and dike.
22
Watch bees in May,
for swarming away.
Both now and in Iune,
marke maister bees tune.
23
Twifallow thy land,
least plough else stand.
24
No longer tarrie,
out compas to carrie.
25
Where neede doth pray it,
there see ye lay it.
26
Set Iack and Ione,
to gather vp stone.
27
To grasse with thy calues,
take nothing to halues.
28
Be suer thy neat,
haue water and meat.
29
By tainting of ground,
destruction is found.
30
Now carrege get,
home fewell to fet.
Tell fagot and billet,
for filching gillet.
31
In sommer for firing,
let citie be buying.
Marke colliers packing,
least coles be lacking.
(See openedsack,)
for two in a pack.
32
Let nodding patch,
go sleepe a snatch.
33
Wife as you will,
now plie your still.
34
Fine bazell sowe,
in a pot to growe.
Fine seedes sowe now,
before, ye sawe how.
35
Keepe ox from cow,
for causes ynow.
Thus endeth Maies abstract, agreeing with Maies husbandrie.
Two other short remembrances
From bull cow fast,
till Crowchmas be past.
From heifer bull hid thee,
till Lammas doth hid thee.
Here ends Maies short remembrances.
