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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The Authours Dialogue betweene two
Bachelers, of wiuing and thriuing by Affirmation and Obiection.
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The Authours Dialogue betweene two Bachelers, of wiuing and thriuing by Affirmation and Obiection.
Chap. 56.
Affirmation.Frend , where we met this other day,
We heard one make his mone and say,
Good Lord how might I thriue?
We heard an other answere him,
Then make thee handsome, trick and trim,
And lay in time to wiue.
Obiection.
And what of that say you to me?
Do you your selfe thinke that to be,
The best way for to thriue?
If truth were truely bolted out,
As touching thrift, I stand in dout,
If men were best to wiue.
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There is no doubt, for proue I can,
I haue but seldome seene that man,
Which could the way to thriue:
Untill it was his happie lot,
To stay himselfe in some good plot,
And wisely then to wiue.
Obiection.
And I am of an other minde,
For by no reason can I finde,
How that way I should thriue:
For where as now I spend a pennie,
I should not then be quit with mennie,
Through bondage for to wiue.
Affirmation.
Not so, for now where thou dost spend,
Of this and that, to no good end,
which hindereth thee to thriue:
Such vaine expences, thou shouldst saue,
And daily then lay more to haue,
As others do that wiue.
Obiection.
Why then do folke this prouerbe put,
The blacke oxe neare trod on thy fut,
If that way were to thriue:
Hereout a man may soone picke forth,
Few feeleth what a pennie is worth,
Till such time as they wiue.
Affirmation.
It may so chaunce as thou doest say,
This lesson therefore beare away,
If thereby thou wilt thriue:
Looke ere thou leape, see ere thou go,
It may be for thy profite so,
For thee to lay to wiue,
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It is too much we dailie heare,
To wiue and thriue both in a yeare,
As touching now to thriue:
I know not herein what to spie,
But that there doth small profite lie,
To fansie for to wiue.
Affirmation.
In deede the first yeare oft is such,
That fondly some bestoweth much,
A let to them to thriue:
Yet other moe may soone be founde,
Which getteth many a faire pounde,
The same day that they wiue.
Obiection.
I graunt, some getteth more that day,
Than they can easily beare away,
Nowe needes then must they thriue:
What gaineth such thinke you by that?
A little burden, you wote what,
Through fondnesse for to wiue.
Affirmation.
Thou seemest blinde as mo haue bin,
It is not beautie bringeth in,
The thing to make thee thriue:
In womankinde, see that ye do,
Require of hir no gift but two,
When ere ye minde to wiue.
Obiection.
But two say you? I pray you than,
Shew those as briefly as you can,
If that may helpe to thriue:
I weene we must conclude anon,
Of those same twaine to want the ton,
When ere we chance to wiue.
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An honest huswife, trust to mee,
Be those same twaine, I sayt to thee,
That helpe [illeg.] thriue:
As honestie farre passeth golde,
So huswiferie in yong and olde,
Do pleasure such as wiue.
Obiection.
The honestie in deede I graunt,
Is one good point the wife should haunt,
To make hir husband thriue:
But now faine would I haue you show,
How should a man good huswife know,
If once he hap to wiue?
Affirmation.
A huswife good betimes will rise,
And order things in comelie wife,
Hir minde is set to thriue:
Upon hir distaffe she will spinne,
And with hir needle she will winne,
If such ye hap to wiue.
Obiection.
It is not idle going about,
Nor all day pricking on a clout,
Can make a man to thriue:
Or if there be no other winning,
But that the wife gets by hir spinning,
Small thrift is to wiue.
Affirmation.
Some more than this yet do shee shall,
Although thy stocke be verie small,
Yet will shee helpe thee thriue:
Lay thou to saue as well as she,
And then thou shalt enriched be,
When such thou hapst to wiue.
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If she were mine, I tell thee troth,
Too much to trouble hir I were loth,
For greedines to thriue:
Least some should talke, as is the speech,
The good wiues husband weares no breech,
If such I hap to wiue.
Affirmation.
What hurts it thee what some do say,
If honestlie she take the way,
To helpe thee for to thriue?
For honestie will make hir prest,
To doo the thing that shall be best,
If such ye hap to wiue.
Obiection.
Why did Diogenes say than,
To one that askt of him time whan,
Were best to wiue to thriue?
Not yet (quoth he) if thou be yong,
If thou waxe old then holde thy tong,
It is too late to wiue.
Affirmation.
Belike he knew some shrewish wife,
Which with hir husband made such strife,
That hindered him to thriue:
Who then may blame him for that clause,
Though then he spake as some had cause,
As touching for to wiue?
Obiection.
Why then I see to take a shrew,
(As seldome other there be few,)
Is not the way to thriue:
So hard a thing I spie it is,
The good to chuse, the shrew to mis,
That feareth me to wiue.
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She may in something seeme a shrew,
Yet such a huswife as but few,
To helpe thee for to thriue:
This prouerbe looke in minde ye keepe,
As good a shrew is as a sheepe,
For you to take to wiue.
Obiection.
Now be she lambe or be she eaw,
Giue me the sheepe, take thou the shreaw,
See which of vs shall thriue:
If she be shrewish, thinke for troth,
For all hir thrift I would be loth,
To match with such to wiue.
Affirmation.
Tush, farewell then, I leaue you off,
Such fooles as you that loue to scoff,
Shall seldome wiue to thriue:
Contrarie hir as you do me,
And then ye shall I warrant ye,
Repent ye if ye wiue.
Obiection.
Friend let vs both giue iustly place,
To wedded man to iudge this cace,
Which best way is to thriue:
For both our talke as seemeth plaine,
Is but as hapneth in our braine,
To will or not to wiue.
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