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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Instructions to Huswiferie.
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Instructions to Huswiferie.
Serue God is the furst,
True loue is not wurst.
True loue is not wurst.
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A dailie good lesson, of huswife in deede,is God to remember, the better to speede.
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An other good lesson, of huswiferie thought,Is huswife with husband, to liue as she ought.
Wife comely no griefe,
Man out, huswife chiefe.
Man out, huswife chiefe.
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Though trickly to see to, be gallant to wiue,yet comely and wise, is the huswife to thriue.
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When husband is absent, let huswife be chiefe,and looke to their labour, that eateth hir biefe.
Both out, not allow,
Keepe house huswife thow.
Keepe house huswife thow.
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Where husband and huswife, be both out of place,there seruants doo loiter, and reason their cace.
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The huswife so named (of keeping the house,)must tend on hir profit, as cat on the mouse.
Seeke home for rest,
For home is best.
For home is best.
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As huswiues keepe home, and be stirrers about,so speedeth their winnings, the yeere thorow out.
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Though home be but homely, yet huswife is taught,that home hath no fellow, to such as haue aught.
Vse all with skill,
Aske what ye will.
Aske what ye will.
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Good vsage with knowledge, and quiet withall,makes huswife to shine, as the sunne on the wall.
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What husband refuseth, all comely to haue,that hath a good huswife, all willing to saue.
Be readie at neede,
All thine to feede.
All thine to feede.
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The case of good huswiues, thus daily doth stand,what euer shall chance, to be readie at hand.
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This care hath a huswife, all daie in hir hed,that all thing in season, be huswifelie fed.
By practise go muse,
How houshold to vse.
How houshold to vse.
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Dame practise is she, that to huswife doth tell,which way for to gouerne, hir familie well.
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Use labourers gently, keepe this as a lawe,make childe to be ciuill, keepe seruant in awe.
Who careles doe liue,
Occasion doe giue.
Occasion doe giue.
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Haue euerie where, a respect to thy waies,that none of thy life, any slander may raies.
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What many doo knowe, though a time it be hid,at length will abrode, when a mischiefe shall bid.
No neighbour reprooue,
Doe so to haue looue.
Doe so to haue looue.
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The loue of thy neighbour, shall stand thee in steede,the poorer, the gladder, to helpe at a neede.
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Use friendly thy neighbour, else trust him in this,as he hath thy friendship, so trust vnto his.
Strike nothing vnknowne,
Take heede to thine owne.
Take heede to thine owne.
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Reuenge not thy wrath, vpon any mans beast,least thine by like malice, be bid to like feast.
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What husband prouideth, with monie his drudge,the huswife must looke to, which waie it doth trudge.
A digression.
Now
out of the matter, this lesson I ad,
concerning cock crowing, what profit is had.
Experience teacheth, as true as a clock:
how winter night passeth, by marking the cock.
concerning cock crowing, what profit is had.
Experience teacheth, as true as a clock:
how winter night passeth, by marking the cock.
Cock croweth at midnight, times few aboue six,
with pause to his neighbour, to answere betwix.
At three a clock thicker, and then as ye knowe:
like all in to Mattens, neere daie they doo crowe.
with pause to his neighbour, to answere betwix.
At three a clock thicker, and then as ye knowe:
like all in to Mattens, neere daie they doo crowe.
At midnight, at three, and an hower ere day,
they vtter their language, as well as they may.
Which who so regardeth, what counsell they giue:
will better loue crowing, as long as they liue.
they vtter their language, as well as they may.
Which who so regardeth, what counsell they giue:
will better loue crowing, as long as they liue.
For being afraid,
Take heede good maid:
Marke crowing of cock,
For feare of a knock.
The first cock croweth.
Take heede good maid:
Marke crowing of cock,
For feare of a knock.
Ho, Dame it is midnight: what rumbling is that?
The next cock croweth.
Take heede to false harlots, and more, ye wot what.
Take heede to false harlots, and more, ye wot what.
If noise ye heare,
Looke all be cleare.
Least drabs doe noie thee,
And theeues destroie thee.
The first cock croweth.
Looke all be cleare.
Least drabs doe noie thee,
And theeues destroie thee.
Maides, three a clock, knede, lay your bucks, or go brew,
The next cock croweth.
And cobble and botch, ye that cannot buie new.
And cobble and botch, ye that cannot buie new.
Till cock crow agen,
Both maidens and men:
Amend now with speede,
That mending doth neede.
The first cock croweth.
Both maidens and men:
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That mending doth neede.
Past fiue a clock, Holla: maid, sleeping beware,
The next cock croweth.
Least quickly your Mistres, vncouer your bare.
Least quickly your Mistres, vncouer your bare.
Maides, vp I beseech yee,
Least Mistres doe breech yee.
To worke and away,
As fast as ye may.
Least Mistres doe breech yee.
To worke and away,
As fast as ye may.
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