39.

[29]Geld lambes now all,straight as they fall.Looke twise a day,least lambes decay.[30]Where horse did harrow,put stones in barrow,And[11]laie them by,in heapes on by.[31]Let oxe once fatlose nothing of that.Now hunt with dog,vnyoked hog.[32]With Doues good luck,reare[12]goose and duck.To spare arightspare March his flight.

[29]Geld lambes now all,straight as they fall.Looke twise a day,least lambes decay.

[30]Where horse did harrow,put stones in barrow,And[11]laie them by,in heapes on by.

[31]Let oxe once fatlose nothing of that.Now hunt with dog,vnyoked hog.

[32]With Doues good luck,reare[12]goose and duck.To spare arightspare March his flight.

[33]The following additional couplets are in 1577.

Sauechikinspoore buttocksfrom pye, crowe, &puttocks.Some loue now bestyong rabbets nest.Now knaues will stealepig, lamb, and veale.Here learne to knowewhat seedes to sowe.And such to plantwhose seedes do want.

Sauechikinspoore buttocksfrom pye, crowe, &puttocks.

Some loue now bestyong rabbets nest.

Now knaues will stealepig, lamb, and veale.

Here learne to knowewhat seedes to sowe.

And such to plantwhose seedes do want.

[1]St. 3, first couplet,What champion usethwoodland refuseth. 1577.

[1]St. 3, first couplet,

What champion usethwoodland refuseth. 1577.

[2]mouth them. 1573 (M.); mowse. 1577.

[3]the. 1573, 1577.

[4]her. 1577.

[5]to. 1577.

[6]bid, 1577; beed, 1585; breed, 1614.

[7]St. 13 is not in 1577.

[8]sling or bowe. 1577.

[9]Stanzas 17, 26, and first couplet of 27 are not in 1577.

[10]Lines transposed in 1577.

[11]or. 1577.

[12]hen. 1577.

[1]Omitted in 1577.

[2]Omitted in 1577.

These buie with the penie,Or looke not for anie.

[1]Tarragon, April, 1577.

[2]Omitted in 1577.

[1]Omitted in 1577.

[2]armour. 1577; amour. 1614.

[3]convallium. 1617

[4]Snap dragons. 1577.

[26]Thus ends in bréefe,Of herbes the chéefe,To get more skill,Read whom ye will,Such mo to haue,Of field go craue.

[1]Betany, in 1577. Thus mistakes in synonyms arise.

March dust to be sold,Worth ransome of gold.Forgotten month past,Doe now at the last.[Sowing of white peason. 1577.]1White peason, both good for the pot and the purse,[1]by sowing too timelie,prooueoften the wurse.Bicause they be tender and hateth the cold,prooue March er ye sowe them, for being too bold.Spare eating of meadowe.2Spare meadow atGregorie,[E272]marshes atPask,for feare of drie Sommer, no longer time ask.Then hedge them and ditch them, bestow thereon pence:corne, meadow and pasture, aske alway good fence.In Lent haue an ey to shéep biters.3Of mastiues andmungrels,[E273]that manie we see,a number of thousands too manie there bee.Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke,for dogs will haue vittles,[2]by hooke or by crooke.[E274]Setting of hops.4In March at the furdest, drie season or wet,hop rootes so well chosen, let skilfull go set.Thegoeler[3]and yonger the better I loue;wellgutted[4]andpared, the better they proue.5Some laieth them croswise, along in the ground,as high as the knee they doo couer vp round.Some prick vp a stick in the mids of the same,that little round hillock the better to frame.6Some maketh a hollownes, halfe a foot deepe,with fower sets in it, set slant wise asteepe:One foot from another, in order to lie,and thereon a hillock, as round as a pie.7Five foot from another ech hillock would stand,as straight as aleaueledline with the hand.Let euerie hillock be fower foot wide,the better to come to on euerie side.8By willowes[E275]that groweth thy hopyard without,and also by hedges thy meadowes about.Good hop hath a pleasure to climbe and to spred,if Sunne may haue passage to comfort hir bed.Hop tools.9Getcrowemade of iron, deepe hole for to make,withcrosseouerthwartit, as sharpe as a stake.Ahone[5]and a parer, like sole of a boote,[6]to pare away grasse and to raise vp the roote.Graffing.10In March is good grafting, the skilfull doo knowe,so long as the wind in the East doo not blowe.From Moone being changed til past be the prime,[7]for grafting and cropping is verie good time.11Things graffed or planted,[8]the greatest and least,defend against tempest, the bird[9]and the beast.Defended shall prosper, the tother is lost,the thing with the labour, the time and the cost.Sowing of barlie.12Sowe barlie in March, in April and Maie,the latter[10]in sand, and the sooner in claie.[11]What worser for barlie than wetnes and cold?what better to skilfull than time to be bold?[E276]13[12]Who soweth his barlie too soone or in raine,ofotes[13]and of thistles shall after complaine.I speake not of Maie weed,[E277]cockle[E278]and such,that noieth the barlie, so often and much.14Let barlie be harrowed, finelie as dust,then workmanly trench it and fence it ye must.This season well plied, set sowing an end,and praise and praie God a good haruest to send.Rowling of barlie.15Somerowleththeir barlie straight after a raine,when first it appeareth to leauell it plaine.The barlie so vsed, the better doth growe,and handsome ye make it at haruest to mowe.16Otes, barlie and pease, harrow after you sowe,[14]for rie harrow first, as alreadie ye knowe.[E279]Leaue wheat little clod, for to couer the head,that after a frost, it may out and go spread.17[15]If clod in thy wheat wil not breake with the frost,if now ye doo rowle it, it quiteth the cost.But see when ye rowle it, the weather be drie,or else it were better vnrowled to lie.¶ Gardening.18In March and in April,[16]from morning to night,in sowing and setting, good huswiues delight:To haue in a garden, or other like plot,toturn vptheir house, and to furnish their pot.¶19The nature of flowers dame Physick doth shew,she teacheth them all to be knowne to a few.To set or to sowe, or else sowne to remoue,how that should be practised, learne if ye loue.To know good land.20Land falling or lieng full South or southwest,for profit by tillage islightlythe best.So garden with orchard and hopyard I finde,that want the like benefit, growe out ofkinde.¶21If field to beare corne a good tillage doth craue,what thinke ye of garden, what garden would haue?In field without cost[E280]be assured of weedes,in garden be suer thou loosest thy seedes.¶22At spring (for the sommer) sowe garden ye shall,at haruest (for winter) or sowe not at all.Oft digging, remoouing, and weeding (ye see),makes herbe the more holesome and greater to bee.¶23Time faire, to sowe or to gather be bold,but set or remooue when the weather is cold.[17]Cut all thing or gather, the Moone in the wane,but sowe in encreasing, or giue it hisbane.¶24Now set doo aske watering with pot or with dish,new sowne doo not so, if ye doo as I wish.[E281]Through cunning withdible, rake, mattock, and spade,by line and by leauell, trim garden is made.25Who soweth too lateward, hath seldome good seed,who soweth too soone, little better shall speed.Apt time and the season so diuers to hit,let aier and laier[18]helpe practise and wit.¶26[19]Now leekes are in season, for pottage full good,and spareth the milchcow and purgeth the blood.These hauing, with peason for pottage in Lent,thou sparest bothotemelland bread to be spent.[E282]¶27Though neuer so much a good huswife doth care,that such as doe labour haue husbandlie fare.Yet feed them and cram them til purse doe lackchinke,no spoone meat, nobellifull, labourers thinke.Destroie pie, rooks, and rauens nest, etc.28Kill crowe, pie andcadow, rooke,buzardand rauen,or else go desire them to seeke a new hauen.In scaling the yoongest, to pluck off hisbeck,beware how ye climber, for breaking your neck.

March dust to be sold,Worth ransome of gold.

Forgotten month past,Doe now at the last.

[Sowing of white peason. 1577.]

1White peason, both good for the pot and the purse,[1]by sowing too timelie,prooueoften the wurse.Bicause they be tender and hateth the cold,prooue March er ye sowe them, for being too bold.

Spare eating of meadowe.

2Spare meadow atGregorie,[E272]marshes atPask,for feare of drie Sommer, no longer time ask.Then hedge them and ditch them, bestow thereon pence:corne, meadow and pasture, aske alway good fence.

In Lent haue an ey to shéep biters.

3Of mastiues andmungrels,[E273]that manie we see,a number of thousands too manie there bee.Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke,for dogs will haue vittles,[2]by hooke or by crooke.[E274]

Setting of hops.

4In March at the furdest, drie season or wet,hop rootes so well chosen, let skilfull go set.Thegoeler[3]and yonger the better I loue;wellgutted[4]andpared, the better they proue.

5Some laieth them croswise, along in the ground,as high as the knee they doo couer vp round.Some prick vp a stick in the mids of the same,that little round hillock the better to frame.

6Some maketh a hollownes, halfe a foot deepe,with fower sets in it, set slant wise asteepe:One foot from another, in order to lie,and thereon a hillock, as round as a pie.

7Five foot from another ech hillock would stand,as straight as aleaueledline with the hand.Let euerie hillock be fower foot wide,the better to come to on euerie side.

8By willowes[E275]that groweth thy hopyard without,and also by hedges thy meadowes about.Good hop hath a pleasure to climbe and to spred,if Sunne may haue passage to comfort hir bed.

Hop tools.

9Getcrowemade of iron, deepe hole for to make,withcrosseouerthwartit, as sharpe as a stake.Ahone[5]and a parer, like sole of a boote,[6]to pare away grasse and to raise vp the roote.

Graffing.

10In March is good grafting, the skilfull doo knowe,so long as the wind in the East doo not blowe.From Moone being changed til past be the prime,[7]for grafting and cropping is verie good time.

11Things graffed or planted,[8]the greatest and least,defend against tempest, the bird[9]and the beast.Defended shall prosper, the tother is lost,the thing with the labour, the time and the cost.

Sowing of barlie.

12Sowe barlie in March, in April and Maie,the latter[10]in sand, and the sooner in claie.[11]What worser for barlie than wetnes and cold?what better to skilfull than time to be bold?[E276]

13[12]Who soweth his barlie too soone or in raine,ofotes[13]and of thistles shall after complaine.I speake not of Maie weed,[E277]cockle[E278]and such,that noieth the barlie, so often and much.

14Let barlie be harrowed, finelie as dust,then workmanly trench it and fence it ye must.This season well plied, set sowing an end,and praise and praie God a good haruest to send.

Rowling of barlie.

15Somerowleththeir barlie straight after a raine,when first it appeareth to leauell it plaine.The barlie so vsed, the better doth growe,and handsome ye make it at haruest to mowe.

16Otes, barlie and pease, harrow after you sowe,[14]for rie harrow first, as alreadie ye knowe.[E279]Leaue wheat little clod, for to couer the head,that after a frost, it may out and go spread.

17[15]If clod in thy wheat wil not breake with the frost,if now ye doo rowle it, it quiteth the cost.But see when ye rowle it, the weather be drie,or else it were better vnrowled to lie.

¶ Gardening.

18In March and in April,[16]from morning to night,in sowing and setting, good huswiues delight:To haue in a garden, or other like plot,toturn vptheir house, and to furnish their pot.

19The nature of flowers dame Physick doth shew,she teacheth them all to be knowne to a few.To set or to sowe, or else sowne to remoue,how that should be practised, learne if ye loue.

To know good land.

20Land falling or lieng full South or southwest,for profit by tillage islightlythe best.So garden with orchard and hopyard I finde,that want the like benefit, growe out ofkinde.

21If field to beare corne a good tillage doth craue,what thinke ye of garden, what garden would haue?In field without cost[E280]be assured of weedes,in garden be suer thou loosest thy seedes.

22At spring (for the sommer) sowe garden ye shall,at haruest (for winter) or sowe not at all.Oft digging, remoouing, and weeding (ye see),makes herbe the more holesome and greater to bee.

23Time faire, to sowe or to gather be bold,but set or remooue when the weather is cold.[17]Cut all thing or gather, the Moone in the wane,but sowe in encreasing, or giue it hisbane.

24Now set doo aske watering with pot or with dish,new sowne doo not so, if ye doo as I wish.[E281]Through cunning withdible, rake, mattock, and spade,by line and by leauell, trim garden is made.

25Who soweth too lateward, hath seldome good seed,who soweth too soone, little better shall speed.Apt time and the season so diuers to hit,let aier and laier[18]helpe practise and wit.

26[19]Now leekes are in season, for pottage full good,and spareth the milchcow and purgeth the blood.These hauing, with peason for pottage in Lent,thou sparest bothotemelland bread to be spent.[E282]

27Though neuer so much a good huswife doth care,that such as doe labour haue husbandlie fare.Yet feed them and cram them til purse doe lackchinke,no spoone meat, nobellifull, labourers thinke.

Destroie pie, rooks, and rauens nest, etc.

28Kill crowe, pie andcadow, rooke,buzardand rauen,or else go desire them to seeke a new hauen.In scaling the yoongest, to pluck off hisbeck,beware how ye climber, for breaking your neck.

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