54.

19Whome fancie persuadeth, among other crops,to haue for his spending, sufficient of hops,[E339]Must willinglie follow, of choises to chuse,such lessons approoued, as skilfull doo vse.Naught for hops.20Ground grauellie, sandie, and mixed with clay,isnaughtiefor hops any maner of way;Or if it be mingled with rubbish and stone,fordrinesand barrennes, let it alone.Good for hops.21Choose soile for the hop of the rottenest mould,welldoongedand wrought, as a garden plot shouldNot far from the water (but not ouerflowne)this lesson well noted is meete to be knowne.22The Sunne in the south, or else southly and west,is ioy to the hop, as a welcomed gest;But wind in the north, or else northly east,to hop is as ill as afraiein a feast.Now dig thy new hop ground.23Meete plot for a hopyard once found as is told,make thereof account, as of iewell of gold.Now dig it and leaue it, the Sunne for to burne,and afterward fence it, to serue for that turne.The praise of hops.24The 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.

19Whome fancie persuadeth, among other crops,to haue for his spending, sufficient of hops,[E339]Must willinglie follow, of choises to chuse,such lessons approoued, as skilfull doo vse.

Naught for hops.

20Ground grauellie, sandie, and mixed with clay,isnaughtiefor hops any maner of way;Or if it be mingled with rubbish and stone,fordrinesand barrennes, let it alone.

Good for hops.

21Choose soile for the hop of the rottenest mould,welldoongedand wrought, as a garden plot shouldNot far from the water (but not ouerflowne)this lesson well noted is meete to be knowne.

22The Sunne in the south, or else southly and west,is ioy to the hop, as a welcomed gest;But wind in the north, or else northly east,to hop is as ill as afraiein a feast.

Now dig thy new hop ground.

23Meete plot for a hopyard once found as is told,make thereof account, as of iewell of gold.Now dig it and leaue it, the Sunne for to burne,and afterward fence it, to serue for that turne.

The praise of hops.

24The 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.

1Go sirs and away,totedand make hay.If stormes drawes nie,then cock apace crie.2Let hay still bide,till well it be dride.(Hay made) away carrie,no longer then tarrie.3Who best way titheth,he best way thriueth.4Two good hay makerswoorth twentiecrakers.5Letdallops[1]aboutbe mowne and had out.Sée hay doo looke gréene,sée féeld ye rake cléene.6Thry fallow I pray thée,least thistles bewray thée.7Cut off, good wife,ripe beane with a knife.8Ripe hempe out cull,from karle to pull.Let séede hempe growe,till more ye knowe.9Drie flax get in,for spinners[2]to spin.Now mowe[3]or pluckthy branke or buck.10Some wormewood saue,for March to haue.11Mark Physick true,of wormewood and rue.[4]Get grist to the mill,for wanting at will.[E340]

1Go sirs and away,totedand make hay.If stormes drawes nie,then cock apace crie.

2Let hay still bide,till well it be dride.(Hay made) away carrie,no longer then tarrie.

3Who best way titheth,he best way thriueth.

4Two good hay makerswoorth twentiecrakers.

5Letdallops[1]aboutbe mowne and had out.Sée hay doo looke gréene,sée féeld ye rake cléene.

6Thry fallow I pray thée,least thistles bewray thée.

7Cut off, good wife,ripe beane with a knife.

8Ripe hempe out cull,from karle to pull.Let séede hempe growe,till more ye knowe.

9Drie flax get in,for spinners[2]to spin.Now mowe[3]or pluckthy branke or buck.

10Some wormewood saue,for March to haue.

11Mark Physick true,of wormewood and rue.[4]Get grist to the mill,for wanting at will.[E340]

[1]dalors. 1577.

[2]mayde. 1577.

[3]Go reape. 1577.

[4]Some woormwood sauefor March to haue. 1577.

[4]

Some woormwood sauefor March to haue. 1577.

No tempest, good Julie,Least corne lookes rulie.Forgotten month past,Doe now at the last.Hay haruest.1Go muster thy seruants, be captaine thy selfe,prouiding them weapon and other likepelfe.Get bottles and walletts, keepe field in the heat,the feare is as much, as the danger is great.2With tossing and raking and setting on cox,grasse latelie inswathesis hay for an ox:[E341]That done, go and cart it and haue it away,the battel is fought, ye haue gotten the day.Pay thy tithes.3Pay 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.4Let hay be well made, orauise else auouse,[E342]formoldingingoef,[2]or of firing the house.Laycoursestaside for the ox and the cow,the finest for sheepe and thy gelding alow.5Then 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.Thry fallowing.6Thry fallow[E343]betime, for destroieng of weede,least thistle andduck[3]fall a blooming and seede,Such season may chance, it shall stand thee vpon,to till it againe, er an Sommer be gon.¶ Gathering of garden beanes.7Notrent[4]off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife,for hindering stalke of hirvegetiuelife.So gather the lowest, and leaning the top,shall teach thee a trick, for to double thy crop.[E344]¶ Gather yellow hempe.8Wife, pluck fro thy seed hemp thefiemblehemp clene,this looketh more yellow, the other more grene:Vsetonfor thy spinning, leaue Mihel thetother,for shoo thred and halter, for rope and such other.[E345]¶9[5]Now pluck vp thy flax, for the maidens to spin,first see it dried, andtimeliegot in.And mowe vp thy branke, and away with it drie,and howse it vp close, out of danger to lie.¶ Wormewood get against fleas and infection.10While 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.¶ Be sure of bread and drinke for haruest.12Get 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 thattolleth, take none but his due.

No tempest, good Julie,Least corne lookes rulie.

Forgotten month past,Doe now at the last.

Hay haruest.

1Go muster thy seruants, be captaine thy selfe,prouiding them weapon and other likepelfe.Get bottles and walletts, keepe field in the heat,the feare is as much, as the danger is great.

2With tossing and raking and setting on cox,grasse latelie inswathesis hay for an ox:[E341]That done, go and cart it and haue it away,the battel is fought, ye haue gotten the day.

Pay thy tithes.

3Pay 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.

4Let hay be well made, orauise else auouse,[E342]formoldingingoef,[2]or of firing the house.Laycoursestaside for the ox and the cow,the finest for sheepe and thy gelding alow.

5Then 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.

Thry fallowing.

6Thry fallow[E343]betime, for destroieng of weede,least thistle andduck[3]fall a blooming and seede,Such season may chance, it shall stand thee vpon,to till it againe, er an Sommer be gon.

¶ Gathering of garden beanes.

7Notrent[4]off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife,for hindering stalke of hirvegetiuelife.So gather the lowest, and leaning the top,shall teach thee a trick, for to double thy crop.[E344]

¶ Gather yellow hempe.

8Wife, pluck fro thy seed hemp thefiemblehemp clene,this looketh more yellow, the other more grene:Vsetonfor thy spinning, leaue Mihel thetother,for shoo thred and halter, for rope and such other.[E345]

9[5]Now pluck vp thy flax, for the maidens to spin,first see it dried, andtimeliegot in.And mowe vp thy branke, and away with it drie,and howse it vp close, out of danger to lie.

¶ Wormewood get against fleas and infection.

10While 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.

¶ Be sure of bread and drinke for haruest.

12Get 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 thattolleth, take none but his due.

[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.

1Thry fallowingwon,getcompassingdon.2In June and inAweswinge brakes (for alawe).3Pare saffron plot,forget it not.His dwelling made trim,looke shortly for him:When haruest is gon,then saffron comes on.4A little of groundbrings saffron a pound.The pleasure is fine,the profit is thine.Kéepe colour in drieng,well vsed woorthbuieng.5[1]Maids, mustard séed reape,and laie on a heape.6Good neighbors in déede,change séede for séede.7Now strike vp drum,[2]cum haruest man cum.Take paine for a gaine,one knaue mars twaine.[E348]8Reape corne by the day,[3]least corne doo decay.By great is the cheaper,if trustie were reaper.9Blowe horne for sleapers,and chéere vp thy reapers.[4]10Well dooings who loueth,thes haruest points proueth.11Paie Gods part furst,and not of the wurst.[E349]12Now Parson (I say),[5]tithcarrie away.13Kéepecart gapwéele,scarehog from whéele.14[6]Mowehawmeto burne,to serue thy turne:To bake thy bread,to burne vnderlead.15Mowne hawme being dry,no longer let ly.Get home thy hawme,whilst weather iscawme.16Mowne barlie lesse cost,ill mowne much lost.17Reape barlie with sickle,that lies in illpickle.[7]Let gréenest stand,for making ofband.Bands made without dew,will hold but a few.18Laie band[8]to find her,two rakes[9]to a binder.19Rake after sieth,and pay thytieth.Corne carried all,then rake it ye shall.20Letshocktakesweate,leastgofetake heate.Yet it is best reason,to take it in season.[E350]21More often ye turne,more pease ye out spurne.Yet winnow them in,ercarregebegin.22Thy carting plie,while weather is drie.23Bid gouing (clim)[10]goue iust and trim.Laie wheat for séede,to come by at néede.Séedebareliecast,to thresh out last.24Lay pease vpon stacke,if houell ye lack.And couer it straight,fromdouesthatwaight.25Let gleaners gleane,(the poore I meane).Which euer ye sowe,that first eate lowe.The other forbare,for rowen[11]to spare.26Come home lord singing,com home[12]corne bringing.[E351]Tis merie in hall,when[13]beards wag all.[E352]27Once had thy desire,pay workman his hire.Let none be beguilde,man, woman, nor childe.28Thanke God[14]ye shall,and adue for all.

1Thry fallowingwon,getcompassingdon.

2In June and inAweswinge brakes (for alawe).

3Pare saffron plot,forget it not.His dwelling made trim,looke shortly for him:When haruest is gon,then saffron comes on.

4A little of groundbrings saffron a pound.The pleasure is fine,the profit is thine.Kéepe colour in drieng,well vsed woorthbuieng.

5[1]Maids, mustard séed reape,and laie on a heape.

6Good neighbors in déede,change séede for séede.

7Now strike vp drum,[2]cum haruest man cum.Take paine for a gaine,one knaue mars twaine.[E348]

8Reape corne by the day,[3]least corne doo decay.By great is the cheaper,if trustie were reaper.

9Blowe horne for sleapers,and chéere vp thy reapers.[4]

10Well dooings who loueth,thes haruest points proueth.

11Paie Gods part furst,and not of the wurst.[E349]

12Now Parson (I say),[5]tithcarrie away.

13Kéepecart gapwéele,scarehog from whéele.

14[6]Mowehawmeto burne,to serue thy turne:To bake thy bread,to burne vnderlead.

15Mowne hawme being dry,no longer let ly.Get home thy hawme,whilst weather iscawme.

16Mowne barlie lesse cost,ill mowne much lost.

17Reape barlie with sickle,that lies in illpickle.[7]Let gréenest stand,for making ofband.Bands made without dew,will hold but a few.

18Laie band[8]to find her,two rakes[9]to a binder.

19Rake after sieth,and pay thytieth.Corne carried all,then rake it ye shall.

20Letshocktakesweate,leastgofetake heate.Yet it is best reason,to take it in season.[E350]

21More often ye turne,more pease ye out spurne.Yet winnow them in,ercarregebegin.

22Thy carting plie,while weather is drie.

23Bid gouing (clim)[10]goue iust and trim.Laie wheat for séede,to come by at néede.Séedebareliecast,to thresh out last.

24Lay pease vpon stacke,if houell ye lack.And couer it straight,fromdouesthatwaight.

25Let gleaners gleane,(the poore I meane).Which euer ye sowe,that first eate lowe.The other forbare,for rowen[11]to spare.

26Come home lord singing,com home[12]corne bringing.[E351]Tis merie in hall,when[13]beards wag all.[E352]

27Once had thy desire,pay workman his hire.Let none be beguilde,man, woman, nor childe.

28Thanke God[14]ye shall,and adue for all.

29Get tumbrell in hand,for barlie land.30The better the muck,the better good luck.31Still carrege is good,for timber and wood.No longer delaies,to mend the high waies.32Some loue as a iewell,wellplacingof fewell.33In piling of logs,make houell for hogs.34Wife, plow doth crie,to picking of rie.35Such séede as ye sowe,such reape or else mowe.36Take shipping or ride,Lent stuffeto prouide.37Let haberden lie,in peasestraw drie.38When out ye ride,leaue a good guide.39Some profit spie out,by riding about.Marke now, thorow yéere,what cheape, what déere.40Some skill doth wellto buie and to sell.Of théefe who bieth,in danger lieth.41Commoditie knowne,abrode is blowne.42At first hand bie,at third let lie.43Haue monieprest,to buie at the best.44Some cattle home bring,for Mihelmas spring.[E353]Byhaukeand hound,small profit is found.45Dispatch, looke home,to loitring mome.Prouide or repent,milch cow for Lent.46Nowcrone[16]your sheepe,fat those ye kéepe.Leaue milking old cow,fat aged vp now.47Sell butter and chéese,good Faires fewléese.At Faires go bie,home wants to supplie.48If hops looke browne,go gather them downe.But not in thedeaw,forpiddlingwithfeaw.49Of hops this knack,a meanie doo lack.[17]Once had thy will,[18]go couer his hill.50Take hop to thy dole,but breake not his pole.51Learne here (thou stranger)to frame hop manger.52Hop poles preserue,againe to serue.Hop poles by and by,long safe vp to dry.Least poles waxscant,new poles go plant.[19]53The hop kell dride,will best abide.Hops dried in loft,asketendanceoft.And shed their séedes,much more than néedes.[20]54Hops dride small cost,ill kept halfe lost.Hops quickly[21]bespilt,take héede if thou wilt.55Some come, some go,This life is so.

29Get tumbrell in hand,for barlie land.

30The better the muck,the better good luck.

31Still carrege is good,for timber and wood.No longer delaies,to mend the high waies.

32Some loue as a iewell,wellplacingof fewell.

33In piling of logs,make houell for hogs.

34Wife, plow doth crie,to picking of rie.

35Such séede as ye sowe,such reape or else mowe.

36Take shipping or ride,Lent stuffeto prouide.

37Let haberden lie,in peasestraw drie.

38When out ye ride,leaue a good guide.

39Some profit spie out,by riding about.Marke now, thorow yéere,what cheape, what déere.

40Some skill doth wellto buie and to sell.Of théefe who bieth,in danger lieth.

41Commoditie knowne,abrode is blowne.

42At first hand bie,at third let lie.

43Haue monieprest,to buie at the best.

44Some cattle home bring,for Mihelmas spring.[E353]Byhaukeand hound,small profit is found.

45Dispatch, looke home,to loitring mome.Prouide or repent,milch cow for Lent.

46Nowcrone[16]your sheepe,fat those ye kéepe.Leaue milking old cow,fat aged vp now.

47Sell butter and chéese,good Faires fewléese.At Faires go bie,home wants to supplie.

48If hops looke browne,go gather them downe.But not in thedeaw,forpiddlingwithfeaw.

49Of hops this knack,a meanie doo lack.[17]Once had thy will,[18]go couer his hill.

50Take hop to thy dole,but breake not his pole.

51Learne here (thou stranger)to frame hop manger.

52Hop poles preserue,againe to serue.Hop poles by and by,long safe vp to dry.Least poles waxscant,new poles go plant.[19]

53The hop kell dride,will best abide.Hops dried in loft,asketendanceoft.And shed their séedes,much more than néedes.[20]

54Hops dride small cost,ill kept halfe lost.Hops quickly[21]bespilt,take héede if thou wilt.

55Some come, some go,This life is so.

* * * 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.

[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 (Crone).

[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.

Dry August and warme,Doth haruest no harme.Forgotten month pastDoe now at the last.Thry fallowing.1Thry 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 toframe.Mowing of brakes.2Get 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.Paring of saffron.3Pare 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.¶ Huswiferie.4In 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]¶5[3]Maides, mustard seede gather, for being too ripe,[E356]andweatherit well, er ye giue it astripe:[4]Then dresse it and laie it insollervp sweete,leastfoistinesmake it for tablevnmeete.¶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.Corne harvest.7Make sure of reapers, get haruest in hand,the corne that is ripe, doo[6]butshedas it stand.Be thankfull to God, for his benefits sent,and willing to saue it with earnest intent.Champion by great, the other by day.8To let out thy haruest, bygreat[7]or byday,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]9Grant haruest lord[8][E358]more by a penie or twoo,to call on hisfellowesthe better to doo:Giueglouesto thy reapers,[9]a larges[E359]to crie,and dailie to loiterers haue a goodeie.Good haruest points.10Reape wel, scatter not, gather cleane that is shorne,binde fast,shockapace, haue an eie to thy corne.Lode safe, carrie home, follow time being faire,goueiustin the barne, it is out ofdespaire.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 giueerieman his.Parson looke to thy tithe.12Corne 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.Kéepe hog from cart whéele.13To cart gap and barne, set a guide to looke weele,andhoyout (sir carter) the hog fro thy wheele:Least greedie of feeding, in following cart,itnoiethor perisheth,spightof thy hart.14In 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.15The hawme is the strawe of the wheat or the rie,which once being reaped, they moweby and bie:For feare of destroieng with cattle or raine,the sooner ye lode it, more profit ye gaine.Mowing of barlie.16The 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 oncocks,some mowe it and binds it, and sets it on shocks.Binding of barlie.17Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find,leaue standing bydallops,[E361]till time ye doo bind:Then early in morning (while deaw is thereon),to making of bands till the deaw be all gon.Spreading of barlie bands.¶18One spreadeth those bands, so in order to ly,as barlie (inswatches) may fill it thereby:Which gathered vp, with the rake and the hand,the follower after them bindeth in band.Tithe of rakings.19Where 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 shouldgruch.[11]20Corne being had downe (any way ye alow),shouldwitheras needeth, for burning in mow:Such skill appertaineth to haruest mans art,and taken in time is a husbandly part.Usage of peason.21No 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.Lingring Lubbers.22If weather be faire, andtidie[12][E362]thy graine,make speedily carrege, for feare of a raine:For tempest and showers deceiueth a menie,and lingeringlubbersloosemany a penie.Best maner of gouing corn in the barn.23Ingouingat haruest, learne skilfully howechgraine 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.Pease stack.24Stack pease vpon houell abrode in the yard,to couer it quicklie, let owner regard:Least Doue and the cadow, there finding asmack,[E363]with ill stormie weather doo perish[E364]thy stack.Leaue gleaning for the poore.25Corne carred, let such as be poore go and gleane,and after, thy cattle tomowthit vp cleane.Then spare it forrowen, tillMihelbe past,to lengthen[E365]thy dairie no better thou hast.26In haruest time, haruest folke, seruants and all,should make all togither goodcheerein the hall:And fill out the black boule of bleith[E366]to their song,and let them be merie all haruest time long.Pay trulie haruest folke.27Once ended thy haruest, let none bebegilde,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.Thanke God for all.28Now looke vp to Godward, let tong neuer ceasein 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.

Dry August and warme,Doth haruest no harme.

Forgotten month pastDoe now at the last.

Thry fallowing.

1Thry 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 toframe.

Mowing of brakes.

2Get 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.

Paring of saffron.

3Pare 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.

¶ Huswiferie.

4In 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]

5[3]Maides, mustard seede gather, for being too ripe,[E356]andweatherit well, er ye giue it astripe:[4]Then dresse it and laie it insollervp sweete,leastfoistinesmake it for tablevnmeete.

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.

Corne harvest.

7Make sure of reapers, get haruest in hand,the corne that is ripe, doo[6]butshedas it stand.Be thankfull to God, for his benefits sent,and willing to saue it with earnest intent.

Champion by great, the other by day.

8To let out thy haruest, bygreat[7]or byday,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]

9Grant haruest lord[8][E358]more by a penie or twoo,to call on hisfellowesthe better to doo:Giueglouesto thy reapers,[9]a larges[E359]to crie,and dailie to loiterers haue a goodeie.

Good haruest points.

10Reape wel, scatter not, gather cleane that is shorne,binde fast,shockapace, haue an eie to thy corne.Lode safe, carrie home, follow time being faire,goueiustin the barne, it is out ofdespaire.

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 giueerieman his.

Parson looke to thy tithe.

12Corne 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.

Kéepe hog from cart whéele.

13To cart gap and barne, set a guide to looke weele,andhoyout (sir carter) the hog fro thy wheele:Least greedie of feeding, in following cart,itnoiethor perisheth,spightof thy hart.

14In 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.

15The hawme is the strawe of the wheat or the rie,which once being reaped, they moweby and bie:For feare of destroieng with cattle or raine,the sooner ye lode it, more profit ye gaine.

Mowing of barlie.

16The 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 oncocks,some mowe it and binds it, and sets it on shocks.

Binding of barlie.

17Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find,leaue standing bydallops,[E361]till time ye doo bind:Then early in morning (while deaw is thereon),to making of bands till the deaw be all gon.

Spreading of barlie bands.¶

Spreading of barlie bands.

18One spreadeth those bands, so in order to ly,as barlie (inswatches) may fill it thereby:Which gathered vp, with the rake and the hand,the follower after them bindeth in band.

Tithe of rakings.

19Where 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 shouldgruch.[11]

20Corne being had downe (any way ye alow),shouldwitheras needeth, for burning in mow:Such skill appertaineth to haruest mans art,and taken in time is a husbandly part.

Usage of peason.

21No 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.

Lingring Lubbers.

22If weather be faire, andtidie[12][E362]thy graine,make speedily carrege, for feare of a raine:For tempest and showers deceiueth a menie,and lingeringlubbersloosemany a penie.

Best maner of gouing corn in the barn.

23Ingouingat haruest, learne skilfully howechgraine 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.

Pease stack.

24Stack pease vpon houell abrode in the yard,to couer it quicklie, let owner regard:Least Doue and the cadow, there finding asmack,[E363]with ill stormie weather doo perish[E364]thy stack.

Leaue gleaning for the poore.

25Corne carred, let such as be poore go and gleane,and after, thy cattle tomowthit vp cleane.Then spare it forrowen, tillMihelbe past,to lengthen[E365]thy dairie no better thou hast.

26In haruest time, haruest folke, seruants and all,should make all togither goodcheerein the hall:And fill out the black boule of bleith[E366]to their song,and let them be merie all haruest time long.

Pay trulie haruest folke.

27Once ended thy haruest, let none bebegilde,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.

Thanke God for all.

28Now looke vp to Godward, let tong neuer ceasein 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.

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