The hop for his profit I thus doo exalt,
it strengtheneth drinke, and it fauoreth malt.
And being well brewed, long kept it will last,
and drawing abide, if ye drawe not too fast.
[1] "forked posts."--T.R.
[2] Sts. 10-12 are omitted in 1577.
[3] goodsere. 1577.
54.
¶ _Julies abstract.
Chap._ 43.
1
Go sirs and away,
to ted and make hay.
If stormes drawes nie,
then cock apace crie.
2
Let hay still bide,
till well it be dride.
(Hay made) away carrie,
no longer then tarrie.
3
Who best way titheth,
he best way thriueth.
4
Two good hay makers
woorth twentie crakers.
5
Let dallops[1] about
be mowne and had out.
Sée hay doo looke gréene,
sée féeld ye rake cléene.
6
Thry fallow I pray thée,
least thistles bewray thée.
7
Cut off, good wife,
ripe beane with a knife.
8
Ripe hempe out cull,
from karle to pull.
Let séede hempe growe,
till more ye knowe.
9
Drie flax get in,
for spinners[2] to spin.
Now mowe[3] or pluck
thy branke or buck.
10
Some wormewood saue,
for March to haue.
11
Mark Physick true,
of wormewood and rue.[4]
Get grist to the mill,
for wanting at will.[E340]
Thus endeth Julies abstract, agréeing with Julies husbandrie.
[1] dalors. 1577.
[2] mayde. 1577.
[3] Go reape. 1577.
[4]
Some woormwood saue
for March to haue. 1577.
55.
¶ _Julies husbandrie.
Chap._ 44.
No tempest, good Julie,
Least corne lookes rulie.
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
[Sidenote: Hay haruest.]
1
Go muster thy seruants, be captaine thy selfe,
prouiding them weapon and other like pelfe.
Get bottles and walletts, keepe field in the heat,
the feare is as much, as the danger is great.
2
With tossing and raking and setting on cox,
grasse latelie in swathes is hay for an ox:[E341]
That done, go and cart it and haue it away,
the battel is fought, ye haue gotten the day.
[Sidenote: Pay thy tithes.]
3
Pay iustly thy tithes whatsoeuer thou bee,
that God may in blessing send foison to thee.
Though Vicar[1] be bad, or the Parson as euill,
go not for thy tithing thy selfe to the Deuill.
4
Let hay be well made, or auise else auouse,[E342]
for molding in goef,[2] or of firing the house.
Lay coursest aside for the ox and the cow,
the finest for sheepe and thy gelding alow.
5
Then downe with the hedlonds, that groweth about,
leaue neuer a dallop vnmowne and had out.
Though grasse be but thin, about barlie and pease,
yet picked vp cleane ye shall find therein ease.
[Sidenote: Thry fallowing.]
6
Thry fallow[E343] betime, for destroieng of weede,
least thistle and duck[3] fall a blooming and seede,
Such season may chance, it shall stand thee vpon,
to till it againe, er an Sommer be gon.
[Sidenote: ¶ Gathering of garden beanes.]
7
Not rent[4] off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife,
for hindering stalke of hir vegetiue life.
So gather the lowest, and leaning the top,
shall teach thee a trick, for to double thy crop.[E344]
[Sidenote: ¶ Gather yellow hempe.]
8
Wife, pluck fro thy seed hemp the fiemble hemp clene,
this looketh more yellow, the other more grene:
Vse ton for thy spinning, leaue Mihel the tother,
for shoo thred and halter, for rope and such other.[E345]
[Sidenote: ¶]
9[5]
Now pluck vp thy flax, for the maidens to spin,
first see it dried, and timelie got in.
And mowe vp thy branke, and away with it drie,
and howse it vp close, out of danger to lie.
[Sidenote: ¶ Wormewood get against fleas and infection.]
10
While wormwood[E346] hath seed, get a handful or twaine,
to saue against March to make flea to refraine:
Where chamber is sweeped, and wormwood is strowne,
no flea for his life dare abide to be knowne.
11[6]
What sauer is better (if physick be true),
for places infected, than wormwood and rue.
It is as a comfort for hart and the braine,
and therefore to haue it, it is not in vaine.
[Sidenote: ¶ Be sure of bread and drinke for haruest.]
12
Get grist to the mill, to haue plentie in store,
least miller lack water, as many doo more.[E347]
The meale the more yeeldeth, if seruant be true,
and miller that tolleth, take none but his due.
Thus endeth Julies husbandrie.
[1] curat. 1577.
[2] mow. 1614.
[3] dock. 1577.
[4] rend. 1573 (M.), 1577.
[5] St. 9 wanting in 1577.
[6] St. 11 wanting in 1577.
56.
¶ _Augusts abstract.
Chap._ 45.
1
Thry fallowing won,
get compassing don.
2
In June and in Awe
swinge brakes (for a lawe).
3
Pare saffron plot,
forget it not.
His dwelling made trim,
looke shortly for him:
When haruest is gon,
then saffron comes on.
4
A little of ground
brings saffron a pound.
The pleasure is fine,
the profit is thine.
Kéepe colour in drieng,
well vsed woorth buieng.
5[1]
Maids, mustard séed reape,
and laie on a heape.
6
Good neighbors in déede,
change séede for séede.
7
Now strike vp drum,[2]
cum haruest man cum.
Take paine for a gaine,
one knaue mars twaine.[E348]
8
Reape corne by the day,[3]
least corne doo decay.
By great is the cheaper,
if trustie were reaper.
9
Blowe horne for sleapers,
and chéere vp thy reapers.[4]
10
Well dooings who loueth,
thes haruest points proueth.
11
Paie Gods part furst,
and not of the wurst.[E349]
12
Now Parson (I say),[5]
tith carrie away.
13
Kéepe cart gap wéele,
scare hog from whéele.
14[6]
Mowe hawme to burne,
to serue thy turne:
To bake thy bread,
to burne vnder lead.
15
Mowne hawme being dry,
no longer let ly.
Get home thy hawme,
whilst weather is cawme.
16
Mowne barlie lesse cost,
ill mowne much lost.
17
Reape barlie with sickle,
that lies in ill pickle.[7]
Let gréenest stand,
for making of band.
Bands made without dew,
will hold but a few.
18
Laie band[8] to find her,
two rakes[9] to a binder.
19
Rake after sieth,
and pay thy tieth.
Corne carried all,
then rake it ye shall.
20
Let shock take sweate,
least gofe take heate.
Yet it is best reason,
to take it in season.[E350]
21
More often ye turne,
more pease ye out spurne.
Yet winnow them in,
er carrege begin.
22
Thy carting plie,
while weather is drie.
23
Bid gouing (clim)[10]
goue iust and trim.
Laie wheat for séede,
to come by at néede.
Séede barelie cast,
to thresh out last.
24
Lay pease vpon stacke,
if houell ye lack.
And couer it straight,
from doues that waight.
25
Let gleaners gleane,
(the poore I meane).
Which euer ye sowe,
that first eate lowe.
The other forbare,
for rowen[11] to spare.
26
Come home lord singing,
com home[12] corne bringing.[E351]
Tis merie in hall,
when[13] beards wag all.[E352]
27
Once had thy desire,
pay workman his hire.
Let none be beguilde,
man, woman, nor childe.
28
Thanke God[14] ye shall,
and adue for all.
_Works after haruest._[15]
29
Get tumbrell in hand,
for barlie land.
30
The better the muck,
the better good luck.
31
Still carrege is good,
for timber and wood.
No longer delaies,
to mend the high waies.
32
Some loue as a iewell,
well placing of fewell.
33
In piling of logs,
make houell for hogs.
34
Wife, plow doth crie,
to picking of rie.
35
Such séede as ye sowe,
such reape or else mowe.
36
Take shipping or ride,
Lent stuffe to prouide.
37
Let haberden lie,
in peasestraw drie.
38
When out ye ride,
leaue a good guide.
39
Some profit spie out,
by riding about.
Marke now, thorow yéere,
what cheape, what déere.
40
Some skill doth well
to buie and to sell.
Of théefe who bieth,
in danger lieth.
41
Commoditie knowne,
abrode is blowne.
42
At first hand bie,
at third let lie.
43
Haue monie prest,
to buie at the best.
44
Some cattle home bring,
for Mihelmas spring.[E353]
By hauke and hound,
small profit is found.
45
Dispatch, looke home,
to loitring mome.
Prouide or repent,
milch cow for Lent.
46
Now crone[16] your sheepe,
fat those ye kéepe.
Leaue milking old cow,
fat aged vp now.
47
Sell butter and chéese,
good Faires few léese.
At Faires go bie,
home wants to supplie.
48
If hops looke browne,
go gather them downe.
But not in the deaw,
for piddling with feaw.
49
Of hops this knack,
a meanie doo lack.[17]
Once had thy will,[18]
go couer his hill.
50
Take hop to thy dole,
but breake not his pole.
51
Learne here (thou stranger)
to frame hop manger.
52
Hop poles preserue,
againe to serue.
Hop poles by and by,
long safe vp to dry.
Least poles wax scant,
new poles go plant.[19]
53
The hop kell dride,
will best abide.
Hops dried in loft,
aske tendance oft.
And shed their séedes,
much more than néedes.[20]
54
Hops dride small cost,
ill kept halfe lost.
Hops quickly[21] be spilt,
take héede if thou wilt.
55
Some come, some go,
This life is so.
Thus endeth Augusts abstract, agréeing with Augusts husbandrie.
* * * Stanza 47 is st. 49 in Septembers Abstract in 1577; st. 48 is 50,
second couplet reads--
But not in a deawe,
nor pidling with feawe. 1577.
[1] Sts. 5, 6 are wanting in 1577.
[2] droom. 1577.
[3] Get reapers by day. 1577.
[4] giue gloues to, etc. 1573 (M.) and 1577.
[5] That parson may. 1577.
[6] Sts. 14, 15, are wanting in 1577.
[7]
Reape barley with hand,
that will not stand. 1577.
[8] hand. 1577.
[9] rakers. 1577.
[10] In 1577, Bid goeuing clim. _Query_, abbreviation for Clement.
[11] rewen. 1577.
[12] cart. 1573 (M.), 1577.
[13] let. 1577.
[14] so. 1577.
[15] The Works after Haruest are not in editions previous to 1580 (M.).
But stanzas 47 and 48 are in Septembers Abstract. 1577.--Ed.
[16] _i.e._ pick out the crones.--T.R., but cf. Glossary.
[17] put in thy pack. 1577.
[18] fyll. 1577.
[19] ley new to plant. 1577.
[20] The third couplet is omitted in 1577.
[21] soone. 1577.
57.
¶ _Augusts husbandrie.
Chap._ 46.
Dry August and warme,
Doth haruest no harme.
Forgotten month past
Doe now at the last.
[Sidenote: Thry fallowing.]
1
Thry fallow once ended, go strike by and by,
both wheat land and barlie, and so let it ly.
And as ye haue leisure, go compas the same,
when vp ye doo lay it, more fruitfull to frame.
[Sidenote: Mowing of brakes.]
2
Get downe with thy brakes, er an showers doo come,
that cattle the better may pasture haue some.
In June and in August, as well doth appeere,
is best to mowe brakes, of all times in the yeere.
[Sidenote: Paring of saffron.]
3
Pare saffron[E354] betweene the two S. Maries daies,[E355]
or set or go shift it, that knowest the waies.
What yeere shall I doo it (more profit to yeeld?)
the fourth in garden, the third in the feeld.
[Sidenote: ¶ Huswiferie.]
4
In hauing but fortie foote workmanly dight,
take saffron ynough for a Lord and a knight.
All winter time alter[1] as practise doth teach,
what plot haue ye better, for linnen to bleach.[2]
[Sidenote: ¶]
5[3]
Maides, mustard seede gather, for being too ripe,[E356]
and weather it well, er ye giue it a stripe:[4]
Then dresse it and laie it in soller vp sweete,
least foistines make it for table vnmeete.
[Sidenote: ¶]
6[5]
Good huswifes in sommer will saue their owne seedes,
against the next yeere, as occasion needes.
One seede for another, to make an exchange,
with fellowlie neighbourhood seemeth not strange.
[Sidenote: Corne harvest.]
7
Make sure of reapers, get haruest in hand,
the corne that is ripe, doo[6] but shed as it stand.
Be thankfull to God, for his benefits sent,
and willing to saue it with earnest intent.
[Sidenote: Champion by great, the other by day.]
8
To let out thy haruest, by great[7] or by day,
let this by experience leade thee a way.
By great will deceiue thee, with lingring it out,
by day will dispatch, and put all out of dout.[E357]
9
Grant haruest lord[8][E358] more by a penie or twoo,
to call on his fellowes the better to doo:
Giue gloues to thy reapers,[9] a larges[E359] to crie,
and dailie to loiterers haue a good eie.
[Sidenote: Good haruest points.]
10
Reape wel, scatter not, gather cleane that is shorne,
binde fast, shock apace, haue an eie to thy corne.
Lode safe, carrie home, follow time being faire,
goue iust in the barne, it is out of despaire.
11[10]
Tithe dulie and trulie, with hartie good will,
that God and his blessing may dwell with thee still:
Though Parson neglecteth his dutie for this,
thanke thou thy Lord God, and giue erie man his.
[Sidenote: Parson looke to thy tithe.]
12
Corne tithed (sir Parson) to gather go get,
and cause it on shocks to be by and by set:
Not leauing it scattering abrode on the ground,
nor long in the field, but away with it round.
[Sidenote: Kéepe hog from cart whéele.]
13
To cart gap and barne, set a guide to looke weele,
and hoy out (sir carter) the hog fro thy wheele:
Least greedie of feeding, in following cart,
it noieth or perisheth, spight of thy hart.
14
In champion countrie a pleasure they take,
to mowe vp their hawme, for to brew and to bake.
And also it stands them in steade of their thack,
which being well inned, they cannot well lack.
15
The hawme is the strawe of the wheat or the rie,
which once being reaped, they mowe by and bie:
For feare of destroieng with cattle or raine,
the sooner ye lode it, more profit ye gaine.
[Sidenote: Mowing of barlie.]
16
The mowing of barlie, if barlie doo stand,
is cheapest and best, for to rid out of hand:[E360]
Some mowe it and rake it, and sets it on cocks,
some mowe it and binds it, and sets it on shocks.
[Sidenote: Binding of barlie.]
17
Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find,
leaue standing by dallops,[E361] till time ye doo bind:
Then early in morning (while deaw is thereon),
to making of bands till the deaw be all gon.
[Sidenote: Spreading of barlie bands.]
[Sidenote: ¶]
18
One spreadeth those bands, so in order to ly,
as barlie (in swatches) may fill it thereby:
Which gathered vp, with the rake and the hand,
the follower after them bindeth in band.
[Sidenote: Tithe of rakings.]
19
Where barlie is raked (if dealing be true),
the tenth of such raking to Parson is due:
Where scatring of barlie is seene to be much,
there custome nor conscience tithing should gruch.[11]
20
Corne being had downe (any way ye alow),
should wither as needeth, for burning in mow:
Such skill appertaineth to haruest mans art,
and taken in time is a husbandly part.
[Sidenote: Usage of peason.]
21
No turning of peason till carrege ye make,
nor turne in no more, than ye mind for to take:
Least beaten with showers so turned to drie,
by turning and tossing they shed as they lie.
[Sidenote: Lingring Lubbers.]
22
If weather be faire, and tidie[12][E362] thy graine,
make speedily carrege, for feare of a raine:
For tempest and showers deceiueth a menie,
and lingering lubbers loose many a penie.
[Sidenote: Best maner of gouing corn in the barn.]
23
In gouing at haruest, learne skilfully how
ech graine for to laie, by it selfe on a mow:
Seede barlie the purest, goue out of the way,
all other nigh hand goue as just as ye may.
[Sidenote: Pease stack.]
24
Stack pease vpon houell abrode in the yard,
to couer it quicklie, let owner regard:
Least Doue and the cadow, there finding a smack,[E363]
with ill stormie weather doo perish[E364] thy stack.
[Sidenote: Leaue gleaning for the poore.]
25
Corne carred, let such as be poore go and gleane,
and after, thy cattle to mowth it vp cleane.
Then spare it for rowen, till Mihel be past,
to lengthen[E365] thy dairie no better thou hast.
26
In haruest time, haruest folke, seruants and all,
should make all togither good cheere in the hall:
And fill out the black boule of bleith[E366] to their song,
and let them be merie all haruest time long.
[Sidenote: Pay trulie haruest folke.]
27
Once ended thy haruest, let none be begilde,
please such as did helpe thee, man, woman, and childe.
Thus dooing, with alway such helpe as they can,
thou winnest the praise of the labouring man.
[Sidenote: Thanke God for all.]
28
Now looke vp to Godward, let tong neuer cease
in thanking of him, for his mightie encrease:
Accept my good will, for a proofe go and trie:
the better thou thriuest, the gladder am I.
[End of Augusts Husbandry in 1577.]
_Works after Haruest._[13]
29
Now carrie out compas, when haruest is donne,
where barlie thou sowest, my champion sonne:
Or laie it on heape, in the field as ye may,
till carriage be faire, to haue it away.
30
Whose compas is rotten and carried in time,
and spred as it should be, thrifts ladder may clime.[E367]
Whose compas is paltrie and carried too late,
such husbandrie vseth that many doo hate.[E368]
[Sidenote: Carriage of fewell.]
31[14]
Er winter preuenteth, while weather is good,
for galling of pasture get home with thy wood.
And carrie out grauell to fill vp a hole:
both timber and furzen, the turfe and the cole.
[Sidenote: Well placing of fewell.]
32
Howse charcole and sedge, chip and cole[15] of the land,
pile tallwood and billet, stacke all that hath band.
Blocks, rootes,[16] pole and bough, set vpright to the thetch:
the neerer more handsome in winter to fetch.
[Sidenote: Houell for hogs.]
33
In stacking of bauen, and piling of logs,
make vnder thy bauen a houell for hogs,
And warmelie enclose it, all sauing the mouth,
and that to stand open, and full to the south.
34
Once haruest dispatched, get wenches and boies,
and into the barne, afore all other toies.
Choised seede to be picked and trimlie well fide,
for seede may no longer from threshing abide.
35
Get seede aforehand, in a readines had,
or better prouide, if thine owne be too bad.
Be carefull of seede, or else such as ye sowe,
be sure at haruest, to reape or to mowe.
[Sidenote: Provision for Lent.]
36[17]
When haruest is ended, take shipping or ride,
Ling,[E369] Saltfish and Herring, for Lent to prouide.
To buie it at first, as it commeth to rode,
shall paie for thy charges thou spendest abrode.
37
Choose skilfullie Saltfish, not burnt at the stone,[18]
buie such as be good, or else let it alone.
Get home that is bought, and goe stack it vp drie,
with peasestrawe betweene it, the safer to lie.
[Sidenote: Compassing of barlie land.]
38
Er euer ye iornie, cause seruant with speede
to compas thy barlie land where it is neede.
One aker well compassed, passeth some three,
thy barne shall at haruest declare it to thee.
39
This lesson is learned by riding about,
the prices of vittels, the yeere thorough out.
Both what to be selling and what to refraine,
and what to be buieng, to bring in againe.[E370]
40
Though buieng and selling doth woonderfull well,
to such as haue skill how to buie and to sell:
Yet chopping and changing I cannot commend,
with theefe[19] and his marrow, for feare of ill end.
41
The rich in his bargaining needes not be tought,
of buier and seller full far is he sought.
Yet herein consisteth a part of my text,
who buieth at first hand, and who at the next.
[Sidenote: Buieng at first hand.]
42
At first hand he buieth that paieth all downe,
at second, that hath not so much in the towne,
At third hand he buieth that buieth of trust,
at his hand who buieth shall paie for his lust.[E371]
[Sidenote: Readie monie bieth best cheape.]
43
As oft as ye bargaine, for better or wurse,
to buie it the cheaper, haue chinkes in thy purse
Touch kept is commended, yet credit to keepe,
is paie and dispatch him, er euer ye sleepe.
[Sidenote: Hauking.]
44
Be mindfull abrode of Mihelmas[20] spring,
for thereon dependeth a husbandlie thing:
Though some haue a pleasure, with hauke vpon hand,
good husbands get treasure, to purchase their land.
[Sidenote: Winter milch cow.]
45
Thy market dispatched, turne home againe round,
least gaping for penie, thou loosest[21] a pound:
Prouide for thy wife, or else looke to be shent,
good milch cow for winter, another for Lent.
[Sidenote: Old ewes.]
46
In traueling homeward, buie fortie good crones,
and fat vp the bodies of those seelie bones.
Leaue milking and drie vp old mulley thy cow,
the crooked and aged, to fatting put now.
[Sidenote: Buieng or selling of butter and chéese.]
47[22]
At Bartilmewtide, or at Sturbridge faire,[E372]
buie that as is needfull, thy house to repaire:
Then sell to thy profit, both butter and cheese,
who buieth it sooner, the more he shall leese.
[Sidenote: Hops gathering.]
48
If hops doo looke brownish, then are ye too slowe,
if longer ye suffer those hops for to growe.
Now sooner ye gather, more profit is found,
if weather be faire and deaw of a ground.
[Sidenote: Increasing of hops.]
49
Not breake off, but cut off, from hop the hop string,
leaue growing a little againe for to spring.
Whose hill about pared, and therewith new clad,
shall nourish more sets against March to be had.
[Sidenote: The order of hops gathering.]
50
Hop hillock discharged of euerie let,
see then without breaking, ech pole ye out get.
Which being vntangled aboue in the tops,
go carrie to such as are plucking of hops.
[Sidenote: Hop manger.]
51
Take soutage or haier (that couers the kell),
set like to a manger and fastened well:
With poles vpon crotchis as high as thy brest,
for sauing and[23] riddance is husbandrie best.[E373]
[Sidenote: Saue hop poles.]
52
Hops had, the hop poles that are likelie preserue,
(from breaking and rotting) againe for to serue:
And plant ye with alders or willowes a[24] plot,
where yeerelie as needeth mo poles may be got.
[Sidenote: Drieng of hops.]
53
Some skilfullie drieth their hops on a kell,
and some on a soller, oft turning them well.
Kell dried will abide, foule weather or faire,
where drieng and lieng in loft doo dispaire.
[Sidenote: Kéeping of hops.]
54
Some close them vp drie in a hogshed or fat,
yet canuas or soutage is better than that:
By drieng and lieng they quickly be spilt:
thus much haue I shewed, doo now as thou wilt.
55
Old fermer is forced long August to make,
his goodes at more leisure away for to take.
New fermer he thinketh ech houre a day,
vntill the old fermer be packing away.[E374]
Thus endeth and holdeth out Augusts husbandrie, till Mihelmas Eue.
Tho. Tusser.
[1] after. 1577.
[2] "Saffron makes a very good Sward, whereon Linnen may lye hollow and
bleach well enough."--T.R.
[3] Stanza 5 is wanting in 1573 (M.) and 1577.
[4] "Beating it upon a Hurdle or some other rough thing."--T.R.
[5] St. 6 is wanting in 1573 (M.) and 1577.
[6] doth. 1614.
[7] "Our Author is justly against letting Harvest by the great, for
whoever does will certainly find himself cheated or slighted."--T.R.
[8] "Some stay'd sober working man, who understands all sorts of
Harvest Work."--T.R. Cf. Matt. ix. 38.
[9] "Where the Wheat is thistly."--T.R.
[10] Stanzas 11, 14, and 15 are not in 1577.
[11] "This alludes to the custom of Norfolk, where the Parson takes his
Tyth in the Swarth, the Farmer also clears the Swarths, and afterwards
with a Drag-Rake rakes his ground all over."--T.R.
[12] "Tidy is an old Word signifying neat, proper, or in Season, from
the word Tide."--T.R.
[13] Not in editions previous to 1580 (M.). Portions are in Septembers
Husbandry 1577.--_Ed_.
[14] Stanzas 31-33 are in Septembers Husbandry. 1577.
[15] turfe. 1577.
[16] Block rootes. 1577.
[17] Sts. 36-46 appear as sts. 25-35 in Septembers Husbandry. 1577.
[18] "Such Fish as is dry'd on the Beach in too hot Weather."--T.R.
[19] knaue. 1577.
[20] Mighelmas. 1577.
[21] lossest. 1577.
[22] Sts. 47-54 occur as sts. 49-56 of Septembers Husbandry. 1577.
[23] of. 1577.
[24] some. 1577.
58.
¶ _Corne Haruest equally deuided into ten partes.
Chap._ 47.[1]
1
One part cast forth, for rent due out of hand,[E375]
2
One other part, for seede to sowe thy land.
3
Another part, leaue Parson for his tieth.
4
Another part for haruest, sickle and sieth.
5
One part for plowwrite, cartwrite, knacker and smith,
6
One part to vphold thy teemes that drawe therewith.
7
One part for seruant and workmans wages lay.
8
One part likewise for filbellie day by day.
[Sidenote: For naperie sope and candle, salt and
sauce, tinker[2] and cooper, brasse and pewter.]
9
One part thy wife for needfull things doth craue.
10
Thy selfe and childe, the last one part would haue.
[11]
Who minds to cote,
vpon this note,
may easily find ynough:
What charge and paine,
to litle gaine,
doth follow toiling plough.
[12]
Yet fermer may
thanke God and say,
for yeerlie such good hap:
Well fare the plough,[E376]
that sends ynough
to stop so many a gap.
[1] This chapter is wanting in 1573 (M.); but is in 1577.
[2] timber. 1577.
59.
¶ _A briefe conclusion, where you may see,
Ech word in the verse, to begin with a T.
Chap._ 48.
[Sidenote: Triue for contriue.]
The thriftie that teacheth the thriuing to thriue,
Teach timelie to trauerse the thing that thou triue.
Transferring thy toiling, to timelines tought.
This teacheth thee temprance, to temper thy thought.
Take trustie (to trust to) that thinkest to thee,
That trustily thriftines trowleth to thee.
Then temper thy trauell to tarie the tide,
This teacheth thee thriftines twentie times tride.
Take thankfull thy talent, thanke thankfully those
That thriftilie teacheth thy time to transpose.
Troth twise to thee teached, teach twentie times ten.
This trade thou that takest, take thrift to thee then.[E377]
[Thomas Tusser (1577).]
60.