Though harmles ye[3] make it
and some doo well take it,
If others forsake it,
what pleasure were that?
Naught else but to paine me,
and nothing to gaine me,
But make them disdaine me
I wot ner for what.
7
Least some make a triall,
as clocke by the diall,
Some stand to deniall,
some murmur and grudge:
Giue iudgement I pray you,
for iustlie so may you,
So fansie, so say you,
I make you my iudge.
8
In time, ye shall try me,
by troth, ye shall spy me,
So finde, so set by me,
according to skill:
How euer trée groweth,
the fruit the trée showeth,[E425]
Your Ladiship knoweth,
my hart and good will.
9
Thogh fortune doth measure,
and I doo lacke treasure,
Yet if I may pleasure
your Honour with this:
Then will me to mend it,
or mend er ye send it,
Or any where lend it,
if ought be amis.
Your Ladiships Seruant,
_Thomas Tusser._
[1] yettie. 1557.
[2] minded. 1577.
[3] I. 1577.
69.
¶ _To the Reader._[1]
1
Now listen, good huswiues, what dooings are here
set foorth for a daie, as it should for a yere.
Both easie to follow, and soone to atchiue,
for such as by huswiferie looketh to thriue.[E426]
2
The forenoone affaires, till dinner (with some,)
then after noone dooings, till supper time come.
With breakfast and dinner time, sup, and to bed,
standes orderlie placed, to quiet thine hed.
3
The meaning is this, for a daie what ye see,
that monthlie and yeerlie continued must bee.
And hereby to gather (as prooue I intend),
that huswiuelie matters haue neuer an end.
4
I haue not, by heare say, nor reading in booke,
set out (peraduenture) that some cannot brooke,
Nor yet of a spite, to be dooing with enie,
but such as haue skared me many a penie.
5
If widow, both huswife and husband may be,
what cause hath a widower lesser than she?
Tis needfull that both of them looke well about:
too careles within, and too lasie without.
6
Now therefore, if well ye consider of this,
what losses and crosses comes dailie amis.
Then beare with a widowers pen as ye may:
though husband of huswiferie somewhat doth say.[E427]
[1] "First introduced in the edition of 1580" (M.).
70.
¶ _The Preface to the booke of Huswiferie._
1
Take weapon away, of what force is a man?
Take huswife from husband, and what is he than?
2
As louers desireth together to dwell,
So husbandrie loueth good huswiferie well.
3
Though husbandrie seemeth to bring in the gaines,
Yet huswiferie labours seeme equall in paines.
4
Some respit to husbands the weather may send,
But huswiues affaires haue neuer an end.
71.
As true as thy faith,
Thus huswiferie saith.
[Sidenote: The praise of huswiferie.]
_I serve for a daie, for a weeke, for a yere,
For life time, for euer, while man dwelleth here.
For richer, for poorer, from North to the South,
For honest, for hardhead, or daintie of mouth.
For wed and vnwedded, in sicknes and health,
For all that well liueth, in good Commonwealth.
For citie, for countrie, for Court, and for cart,
To quiet the head, and to comfort the hart.
72.
¶ _A description of Huswife and Huswiferie._[E428]
1
Of huswife doth huswiferie challenge that name,
of huswiferie huswife doth likewise the same,
Where husband and husbandrie ioineth with thease,
there wealthines gotten is holden with ease.
2
The name of a huswife what is it to say?
the wife of the house, to the husband a stay.
If huswife doth that, as belongeth to hur:
if husband be godlie,[1] there needeth no stur.
3
The huswife is she that to labour doth fall,
the labour of hir I doo huswiferie call.
If thrift by that labour be honestlie[2] got:
then is it good huswiferie, else is it not.
4
The woman the name of a huswife doth win,
by keeping hir house, and of dooings therein.
And she that with husband will quietly dwell,
must thinke on this lesson, and follow it well.
[1] wittie. 1577. Cf. _post_, ch. 100, st. 6.
[2] be sued or got. 1577.
[Finis (1577).]
73.
_Instructions to Huswiferie._[E429]
Serue God is the furst,
True loue is not wurst.
1
A dailie good lesson, of huswife in deede,
is God to remember, the better to speede.
2
An other good lesson, of huswiferie thought,
is huswife with husband to liue as she ought.
Wife comely no griefe,
Man out, huswife chiefe.
3
Though trickly to see to, be gallant to wiue,
yet comely and wise is the huswife to thriue.
4
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.
5
Where husband and huswife be both out of place,
there seruants doo loiter, and reason their cace.[E430]
6
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.
7
As huswiues keepe home, and be stirrers about,
so speedeth their winnings, the yeere thorow out.
8
Though home be but homely, yet huswife is taught,
that home hath no fellow to such as haue aught.[E431]
¶ Vse all with skill,
Aske what ye will.
9
Good vsage with knowledge, and quiet withall,
make huswife to shine, as the sunne on the wall.
10
What husband refuseth all comely to haue,
that hath a good huswife, all willing to saue.
Be readie at neede,
All thine to feede.
11
The case of good huswiues, thus daily doth stand,
what euer shall chance, to be readie at hand.
12
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.
13
Dame practise is she that to huswife doth tell,
which way for to gouerne hir familie[E432] well.
14
Vse labourers gently, keepe this as a lawe,
make childe to be ciuill, keepe seruant in awe.
Who careles doe liue,
Occasion doe giue.
15
Haue euerie where a respect to thy waies,
that none of thy life any slander may raies.
16
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.
17
The loue of thy neighbour shall stand thee in steede,
the poorer, the gladder, to helpe at a neede.
18
Vse 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.
19
Reuenge not thy wrath vpon any mans beast,
least thine by like malice be bid to like feast.
20
What husband prouideth with monie his drudge,
the huswife must looke to, which waie it doth trudge.
74.
_A digression._
[1]
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.
[2]
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.
[Sidenote: Cocke crowing.]
[3]
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.
For being afraid,
Take heede good maid:
Marke crowing of cock,
For feare of a knock.
[4]
¶ _The first cock croweth._
Ho, Dame it is midnight: what rumbling is that?
The next cock croweth.[1]
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.
[5]
¶ _The first cock croweth._
Maides, three a clock,[E433] knede, lay your bucks,[E434] or go brew,
The next cock croweth.
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.[2]
[6]
¶ _The first cock croweth._
Past fiue a clock, Holla: maid, sleeping beware,
The next cock croweth.
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.
[1] showeth, here and in stanzas 5 and 6. 1577.
[2]
Both mayden and man
mend now what ye can.
Leave gibber gabber
mend slibber slabber. 1577.
75.
¶ _Huswiferie._
[Now listen, good huswiues, what doings are here
set out for a day as it should for a yere. 1577.]
¶ _Morning workes._[1]
No sooner some vp,
But nose is in cup.
1
Get vp in the morning as soone as thou wilt,
with ouerlong slugging good seruant is spilt.
2
Some slouens from sleeping no sooner get vp,
but hand is in aumbrie, and nose in the cup.
That early is donne,
Count huswifely wonne.
[Sidenote: Morning workes.]
3
Some worke in the morning may trimly be donne,
that all the day after can hardly be wonne.
4
Good husband without it is needfull there be,
good huswife within as needfull as he.
Cast dust into yard,
And spin and go card.
5
Sluts corners auoided shall further thy health,
much time about trifles shall hinder thy wealth.
6
Set some to peele hempe or else rishes to twine,
to spin and to card, or to seething of brine.
Grind mault for drinke,
See meate do not stinke.
7
Set some about cattle, some pasture to vewe,
some mault to be grinding against ye do brewe.
8
Some corneth, some brineth, some will not be taught,
where meate is attainted, there cookrie is naught.
[1] This and other sub-titles are not in 1577.
76.
¶ _Breakefast doings._
To breakefast that come,
Giue erie one some.
[Sidenote: Breakefast.]
1
Call seruants to breakefast by day starre appere,[E435]
a snatch and to worke, fellowes tarrie not here.
2
Let huswife be caruer, let[1] pottage be heate,
a messe to eche one, with a morsell of meate.
No more tittle tattle,
Go serue your cattle.
3
What tacke in a pudding, saith greedie gut wringer,
giue such ye wote what, ere a pudding he finger.
4
Let seruants once serued, thy cattle go serue,
least often ill seruing make cattle to sterue.
[1] see. 1577.
77.
¶ _Huswifely admonitions._
[Sidenote: Thée for thriue.]
Learne you that will thee,
This lesson of mee.[1]
1
No breakefast of custome prouide for to saue,
but onely for such as deserueth to haue.
2
No shewing of seruant what vittles in store,
shew seruant his labour, and shew him no more.
Of hauocke beware,
Cat nothing will spare.
3
Where all thing is common, what needeth a hutch?
where wanteth a sauer, there hauocke is mutch.
4
Where window is open, cat maketh a fray,
yet wilde cat with two legs is worse by my fay.
Looke well vnto thine,
Slut slouthfull must whine.
5
An eie in a corner who vseth to haue,
reuealeth a drab, and preuenteth a knaue.
6
Make maide to be clenly, or make hir crie creake,
and teach hir to stirre, when hir mistresse doth speake.
Let hollie wand threate,
Let fisgig be beate.
7
A wand in thy hand, though ye fight not at all,
makes youth to their businesse better to fall.
8
For feare of foole had I wist[2][E436] cause thee to waile,
let fisgig be taught to shut doore after taile.
Too easie the wicket,
Will still appease clicket.
9
With hir that will clicket make daunger to cope,
least quickly hir wicket seeme easie to ope.
10
As rod little mendeth where maners be spilt,
so naught will be naught say and do what thou wilt.
Fight seldome ye shall
But vse not to brall.
11
Much bralling with seruant, what man can abide?
pay home when thou fightest, but loue not to chide.
12
As order is heauenly where quiet is had,
so error is hell, or a mischiefe as bad.
What better a lawe
Than subjects in awe?
13
Such awe as a warning will cause to beware,
doth make the whole houshold the better to fare.
14
The lesse of thy counsell thy seruants doe knowe,
Their dutie the better such seruants shall showe.
Good musicke regard,
Good seruants reward.
15
Such seruants are oftenest painfull and good,
that sing in their labour, as birdes in the wood.
16
Good seruants hope iustly some friendship to feele,
and looke to haue fauour what time they do weele.
By once or twise
Tis time to be wise.
17
Take runagate Robin, to pitie his neede,
and looke to be filched, as sure as thy creede.
18
Take warning by once, that a worse do not hap,
foresight is the stopper of many a gap.
Some change for a shift,
Oft change, small thrift.
19
Make fewe of thy counsell to change for the best,
least one that is trudging infecteth the rest.
20
The stone that is rolling can gather no mosse,[E437]
for maister and seruant, oft changing is losse.
Both liberall sticketh,
Some prouender pricketh.
[Sidenote: One liberall.]
21
One dog for a hog, and one cat for a mouse,
one readie to giue is ynough in a house:
22
One gift ill accepted, keepe next in thy purse,
whom prouender pricketh are often the wurse.
[1] How daintie some be. 1573.
[2] "A wise man saith not, had I wist."--Uncertain Author in _Tottel's
Miscellany_ (p. 244, Arber's ed.).
78.
¶ _Brewing._
Brew somewhat for thine,
Else bring vp no swine.
[Sidenote: Brewing.]
1
Where brewing is needfull, be brewer thy selfe,
what filleth the roofe will helpe furnish the shelfe:
2
In buieng of drinke, by the firkin or pot,
the tallie ariseth, but hog amendes not.[1]
Well brewed, worth cost,
Ill vsed, halfe lost.
3
One bushell well brewed, outlasteth some twaine,
and saueth both mault, and expences in vaine.[2]
4
Too new is no profite, too stale is as bad,
drinke dead or else sower makes laborer sad.[E438]
Remember good Gill,
Take paine with thy swill.
[Sidenote: Séething of graines.]
5
Seeth grains in more water, while grains be yet hot,
and stirre them in copper, as poredge in pot.
6
Such heating with straw, to haue offall good store,
both pleaseth and easeth, what would ye haue more?
[1] Score quickely ariseth, hog profiteth not. 1577.
[2] Two troubles for nothing, is cost to no gaine. 1577.
79.
¶ _Baking._[E439]
Newe bread is a driuell.
Much crust is as euill.
[Sidenote: Baking.]
1
New bread is a waster, but mouldie is wurse,
what that way dog catcheth, that loseth the purse.
2
Much dowebake I praise not, much crust is as ill,
the meane is the Huswife, say nay if ye will.
80.
¶ _Cookerie._
Good cookerie craueth,
Good turnebroch saueth.
[Sidenote: Cookerie.]
1
Good cooke to dresse dinner, to bake and to brewe,
deserues a rewarde, being honest and trewe.
2
Good diligent turnebroch and trustie withall,
is sometime as needfull as some in the hall.
81.
¶ _Dairie._
Good dairie doth pleasure,
Ill dairie spendes treasure.
[Sidenote: Dairie.]
1
Good huswife in dairie, that needes not be tolde,
deserueth hir fee to be paid hir in golde.
2
Ill seruant neglecting what huswiferie saies,
deserueth hir fee to be paid hir with baies.[E440]
Good droie[E441] woorth much.[1]
Marke sluts and such.
3
Good droie to serue hog, to helpe wash, and to milke,
more needfull is truelie than some in their silke.
4
Though homelie be milker, let cleanlie be cooke,
for a slut and a slouen be knowne by their looke.
In dairie no cat,
Laie bane for a rat.
[Sidenote: Traps for rats.]
5
Though cat (a good mouser) doth dwell in a house,
yet euer in dairie haue trap for a mouse.
6
Take heede how thou laiest the bane for the rats,
for poisoning seruant, thy selfe and thy brats.
[1] Though droy be, etc. 1577.
82.
¶ _Scouring._
No scouring for pride,
Spare kettle whole side.
[Sidenote: Scouring.]
1
Though scouring be needfull, yet scouring too mutch,
is pride without profit, and robbeth[1] thine hutch.
2
Keepe kettles from knocks, set tubs out of Sun,
for mending is costlie, and crackt is soone dun.
[1] rubbeth. 1573, 1577.
83.
_Washing._
Take heede when ye wash,
Else run in the lash.
[Sidenote: Washing.]
1
Maids, wash well and wring well, but beat ye wot how,
if any lack beating, I feare it be yow.
2
In washing by hand, haue an eie to thy boll,
for launders and millers, be quick of their toll.
Drie sunne, drie winde,
Safe binde, safe finde.
3
Go wash well, saith Sommer, with sunne I shall drie,
go wring well, saith Winter, with winde so shall I.
4
To trust without heede is to venter a ioint,
giue tale and take count, is a huswifelie point.
Where many be packing,
Are manie things lacking.
5
Where hens fall a cackling, take heede to their nest,
where drabs fall a whispring, take heede to the rest.
6
Through negligent huswifes, are many things lacking,
and Gillet suspected will quickly be packing.
84.
_Malting._
Ill malting is theft,
Wood dride hath a weft.
[Sidenote: Malting.]
1
House may be so handsome, and skilfulnes such,
to make thy owne malt, it shall profit thee much.
2
Som drieth with strawe, and some drieth with wood,
wood asketh more charge, and nothing so good.[E442]
Take heede to the kell,
Sing out as a bell.
3
Be suer no chances to fier can drawe,
the wood, or the furzen, the brake or the strawe.
4
Let Gillet be singing, it doth verie well,
to keepe hir from sleeping and burning the kell.
Best dride best speedes,
Ill kept, bowd breedes.
5
Malt being well speered, the more it will cast,
malt being well dried, the longer will last.
6
Long kept in ill soller, (vndoubted thou shalt,)
through bowds without number loose quickly thy malt.[E443]
85.
¶ _Dinner matters._
For hunger or thirst,
Serue cattle well first.
[Sidenote: Dinner time.]
1
By noone[E444] see your dinner, be readie and neate,
let meate tarrie seruant, not seruant his meate.
2
Plough cattle a baiting, call seruant to dinner,
the thicker togither, the charges the thinner.
Togither is best,
For hostis and gest.
3[1]
Due season is best, altogither is gay,
dispatch hath no fellow, make short and away.
4
Beware of Gill laggoose, disordring thy house,
mo dainties who catcheth, than craftie fed mouse!
Let such haue ynough,
That follow the plough.
5
Giue seruant no dainties, but giue him ynough,
too many chaps walking,[E445] do begger the plough.
6
Poore seggons halfe starued worke faintly and dull,
and lubbers doo loiter, their bellies too full.
Giue neuer too much,
To lazie and such.
7
Feede lazie that thresheth a flap and a tap,
like slothfull, that all day be stopping a gap.
8
Some litherly lubber more eateth than twoo,
yet leaueth vndone that another will doo.
Where nothing will last,
Spare such as thou hast.
9
Some cutteth thy linnen, some spoileth[2] their broth,
bare table to some doth as well as a cloth.
10
Treene dishes be homely, and yet not to lack,
where stone is no laster take tankard and iack.
Knap boy on the thums,
And saue him his crums.
11
That pewter is neuer for manerly feastes,
that daily doth serue so vnmanerly beastes.
12
Some gnaweth and leaueth, some crusts and some crums,
eat such their own leuings, or gnaw their own thums.
Serue God euer furst,
Take nothing at wurst.
[Sidenote: Grace before and after meate.]
13
At Dinner, at Supper, at morning, at night,
giue thankes vnto God, for his gifts so in[3] sight.
14
Good husband and huswife, will sometime alone,
make shift with a morsell and picke of a bone.
Inough thou art tolde,
Too much will not holde.
15
Three dishes well dressed, and welcome withall,
both pleaseth thy friend and becommeth thine hall.
16
Enough is a plentie,[E446] too much is a pride,
the plough with ill holding, goes quicklie aside.
[1] Stanzas 3-12 are not in 1577.
[2] spilleth. 1577.
[3] in thy. 1577.
86.
¶ _Afternoone workes._
Make companie breake,
Go cherish the weake.
[Sidenote: Afternoone workes.]
1
When Dinner is ended, set seruants to wurke,
and follow such fellowes[1] as loueth to lurke.
2
To seruant in sicknesse see nothing ye grutch,
a thing of a trifle shall comfort him mutch.
Who manie do feede,
Saue much they had neede.
3
Put chippings[E447] in dippings, vse parings to saue,
fat capons or chickens that lookest to haue.
4
Saue droppings and skimmings, how euer ye doo,
for medcine for cattell, for cart and for shoo.
Leane capon vnmeete,
Deere fed is vnsweete.
5
Such ofcorne as commeth giue wife to hir fee,
feede willingly such as do helpe to feede thee.
6
Though fat fed is daintie, yet this I thee warne,
be cunning in fatting for robbing thy barne.
Peece hole to defende.
Things timely amende.
7
Good semsters be sowing of fine pretie knackes,
good huswifes be mending and peecing their sackes.
8
Though making and mending be huswifely waies,
yet mending in time is the huswife to praies.
Buie newe as is meete,
Marke blanket and sheete.
9
Though Ladies may rend and buie new ery day,
good huswifes must mend and buie new as they may.
10
Call quarterly seruants to court and to leete,[E448]
write euerie Couerlet, Blanket, and Sheete.
Shift slouenly elfe,
Be gayler thy selfe.
11
Though shifting too oft be a theefe in a house,
yet shift slut and slouen for feare of a louse.
12
Graunt doubtfull no key of his chamber in purse,
least chamber doore lockt be to theeuerie a nurse.
Saue feathers for gest,
These other rob chest.
[Sidenote: Saue feathers.]
13
Saue wing for a thresher, when Gander doth die,
saue feather of all thing, the softer to lie.
14
Much spice is a theefe, so is candle and fier,
sweete sauce is as craftie as euer was frier.
Wife make thine owne candle,
Spare pennie to handle.
[Sidenote: Candle making.]
15
Prouide for thy tallow, ere frost commeth in,
and make thine owne candle, ere winter begin.
16
If pennie for all thing be suffred to trudge,
trust long, not to pennie, to haue him thy drudge.
[1] marchants. 1577.
87.
¶ _Euening workes._
Time drawing to night,
See all things go right.
[Sidenote: Euening workes.]
1
When hennes go to roost go in hand to dresse meate,
serue hogs and to milking and some to serue neate.
2
Where twaine be ynow, be not serued with three,
more knaues in a companie worser they bee.
Make lackey to trudge,
Make seruant thy drudge.
3
For euerie trifle leaue ianting thy nag,
but rather make lackey of Jack boie thy wag.
4
Make seruant at night lug in wood or a log,
let none come in emptie but slut and thy dog.
False knaue readie prest,
All safe is the best.
5
Where pullen vse nightly to pearch in the yard,
there two legged foxes keepe watches and ward.
6
See cattle well serued, without and within,
and all thing at quiet ere supper begin.
Take heede it is needeful,
True pittie is meedeful.
7
No clothes in garden, no trinkets without,
no doore leaue vnbolted, for feare of a dout.
8
Thou woman whom pitie becommeth the best,
graunt all that hath laboured time to take rest.
88.
¶ _Supper matters._
Vse mirth and good woorde,
At bed and at boorde.
[Sidenote: Supper time huswiferie.]
1
Provide for thy husband, to make him good cheere,
make merrie togither, while time ye be heere.
2
At bed and at boord, howsoeuer befall,
what euer God sendeth be merrie withall.
No brawling make,
No ielousie take.
3
No taunts before seruants, for hindring of fame,
no iarring too loude for auoyding of shame.
4
As fransie and heresie roueth togither,
so iealousie leadeth a foole ye wot whither.
Tend such as ye haue,
Stop talkatiue knaue.
5
Yong children and chickens would euer be eating,
good seruants looke dulie for gentle intreating.
6
No seruant at table vse sausly to talke,
least tongue set at large out of measure do walke.
No snatching at all,
Sirs, hearken now all.
7
No lurching,[E449] no snatching, no striuing at all,
least one go without and another haue all.
8
Declare after Supper, take heede therevnto,
what worke in the morning ech seruant shall do.
89.
¶ _After supper matters._
Thy soule hath a clog,
Forget not thy dog.
[Sidenote: Workes after supper.]
1
Remember those children whose parents be poore,
which hunger, yet dare not craue[1] at thy doore.
2
Thy Bandog[E450] that serueth for diuerse mishaps,
forget not to giue him thy bones and thy scraps.
Make keies to be keepers,
To bed ye sleepers.
3
Where mouthes be many, to spend that thou hast,
set keies to be keepers, for spending too fast.
4
To bed after supper let drousie go sleepe,
least knaue in the darke to his marrow do creepe.
Keepe keies as thy life,
Feare candle good wife.
5
Such keies lay vp safe, ere ye take ye to rest,
of dairie, of buttrie, of cubboord and chest.
6
Feare candle in hailoft, in barne, and in shed,
feare flea smocke and mendbreech, for burning their bed.
See doore lockt fast,
Two keies make wast.
7
A doore without locke is a baite for a knaue,
a locke without key is a foole that will haue.
8
One key to two locks, if it breake is a greefe,
two keies to one locke in the ende is a theefe.
Night workes troubles hed,
Locke doores and to bed.
9
The day willeth done whatsoeuer ye bid,
the night is a theefe, if ye take not good hid.
10
Wash dishes, lay leauens, saue fire and away,
locke doores and to bed, a good huswife will say.
To bed know thy guise,
To rise do likewise.
[Sidenote: Bed time.]
11
In winter at nine, and in sommer at ten,
to bed after supper both maidens and men.
[Sidenote: Time to rise.]
12
In winter at fiue a clocke, seruant arise,
in sommer at foure is verie good guise.[E451]
Loue so as ye may
Loue many a day.
13
Be lowly not sollen, if ought go amisse,
what wresting may loose thee, that winne with a kisse.
14
Both beare and forebeare now and then as ye may,
then, wench God a mercie, thy husband will say.
[1] to. 1577.
90.