In euerie month, er[1]in aught be begun,[E1]Reade ouer that month, whatauailesto be dun.So neither thistrauell[2]shall seeme to be lost:Nor thou to repent of this trifeling cost.The figure of abstract and month doo agree,Which one to another relations bee.[E2]These verses so short, without figure that stand,[3]Be points of themselues, to be taken in hand.¶[4]In husbandrie matters, where Pilcrowe[E3]ye finde,That verse appertaineth to huswiferie kinde.So haue ye mo lessons, (if there ye looke well),Than huswiferie booke doth vtter or tell.Of Champion husbandrie now doo I write,Which heretofore neuer this booke did recite.With lessons approoued, by practise and skill:To profit the ignorant, buie it that will.The Champion differs from Seuerall much,For want ofpartition,closierand such.One name to them both doo I giue now & than,For Champion countrie, and Champion man.
In euerie month, er[1]in aught be begun,[E1]Reade ouer that month, whatauailesto be dun.So neither thistrauell[2]shall seeme to be lost:Nor thou to repent of this trifeling cost.
The figure of abstract and month doo agree,Which one to another relations bee.[E2]These verses so short, without figure that stand,[3]Be points of themselues, to be taken in hand.
¶[4]In husbandrie matters, where Pilcrowe[E3]ye finde,That verse appertaineth to huswiferie kinde.So haue ye mo lessons, (if there ye looke well),Than huswiferie booke doth vtter or tell.
Of Champion husbandrie now doo I write,Which heretofore neuer this booke did recite.With lessons approoued, by practise and skill:To profit the ignorant, buie it that will.
The Champion differs from Seuerall much,For want ofpartition,closierand such.One name to them both doo I giue now & than,For Champion countrie, and Champion man.
[1]yer. 1585.
[1]yer. 1585.
[2]travail. 1577.
[2]travail. 1577.
[3]The lessons that after those figures so stand. 1577.
[3]The lessons that after those figures so stand. 1577.
[4]The edition of 1577 contains only the first two verses.
[4]The edition of 1577 contains only the first two verses.
* * * Roman words in [ ] are wanting in 1577 edition;italicsin [ ] are additions in the edition of 1577, in whichyis substituted forie, and accented é is unused.
The Epistle to the Lord William Paget deceased, and the occasion first of this booke.The Epistle to the Lord Thomas Paget, second sonne, and now heire to the Lord William Paget his father.[The Epistel] To the Reader.[An Introduction to the booke of husbandrie.][A Preface to the buier of this booke.The preface.]The commoditie[s] of husbandrie.The praise of husbandrie [by aredele].The description of [husband &] husbandrie.The ladder [of xxxiiij steps] tothrift.Good husbandlie lessons worthie to be followed of such as will thriue.An habitation inforced, [aduisedly] better late than neuer; [made] upon these wordes, Sit downe Robin and rest thée.[The farmers dailie diet.A description of the properties of winds all yetimes of the yere.Of the Planets.]Septembers abstract.[Other short remembrances for September.]Septembers husbandrie [with the nedeful furnyture of yebarne stable, plough, cart, yard, & field, togither with the manner of gathering hops, drying & keping them].[A digression to husbandlie furniture.The residue of Septembers husbandrie, agréeing with his former abstract.]Octobers abstract.[Other short remembrances for October.]Octobers husbandrie.[A digression to the vsage of diuers countries concerning tillage.The residue of Octobers husbandrie, agréeing with his former abstract.]Nouembers abstract.[Other short remembrances for Nouember.]Nouembers husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].Decembers abstract.[Other short remembrances for December.]Decembers husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].A digression [directing] to hospitalitie.A description of time, and the yere.A description of life & riches.A description of houskéeping.A description of [the feast of the birth of Christ, commonlie called] Christmas.A description of apt time to spend.Against fantasticalscruplenes.Christmas husbandlie fare.A Christmas caroll [of the birth of Christ, vpon the tune of king Salomon].Ianuaries abstract [and at the end thereof diuers sorts of trees and frutes to bee then set or remoued, following the order of yealphabet orcrosserowe].[E4][Other short remembrances for Ianuarie.Of trées or fruites to be set or remooued.]Ianuaries husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].Februaries abstract.[Other short remembrances for Februarie.]Februaries husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].Marches abstract [and at the ende therof, the names of the seedes, herbes, flowers & rootes than to be sowen or set, unles the time be otherwise noted by expresse wordes, as wel for kitchin herbes, strowing herbes & flowers, as herbes to stil & for phisick, set after the order of the alphabet or crosserowe].[Other short remembrances for March.Seedes and hearbes for the kitchen.Herbes and rootes for sallets and sauce.Herbs or rootes to boile or to butter.Strowing herbs of all sorts.Herbes, branches and flowers for windowes and pots.Herbs to still in Summer.Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Physicke not rehersed before.]Marches husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstractwith the maner of setting of hops].Aprils abstract.Aprils husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstractwith a lesson for dairy maide Cisseley and of x toppings gests in hir whitmeat, better lost then found.][A digression to dairie matters.A lesson for dairie maid Cisley of ten toppings gests.]Maies abstract.[Two other short remembrances for Maie.]Maies husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].Junes abstract.[A lesson of hopyard.]Junes husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract,with a lesson to chuse a meete plot for hopps and howe then to be doing with the same.][A lesson where and when to plant good hopyard.]Julies abstract.Julies husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstractand hay harvest].Augusts abstract.[Workes after haruest.]Augusts husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract& corne haruest].[Corne haruest equally diuided into ten partes.][The conclusion of the whole booke set out in12verses euery word beginning with a T yefirst letter of the Authors name.][A briefe conclusion in verse, euerie word beginning with a T.]Mans age [divided into xij prentiships, from seuen yeares to fourescore and foure].[A briefe description of thenclinations of mans age by the similitude of the Ape, Lion, Foxe, & the Asse.][Another diuision of the nature of mans age.]A comparison betwéene good husband[rie] and [badeuill].A comparison betwéene [woodland &Champion] countrie and Seuerall.[The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.][A Sonet howe to set a candle afore the Deuill.]A Sonet against a slaunderous tongue.A Sonet [to his Lord & Master of his first vij yeres seruicevpon the Authors first seuen yeres seruice].[The AuthorsA] dialogue betweene two Bachelers [batchillers], of wiuing & thriuing, by affirmation & negation [& the maryed mans iudgment thereof].[The wedded mans iudgement taking vp the matter of wiuing and thriuing.How ewes should be vsed that are néere lambing.How lambes should be vsed when they are yoong.What times are most méete for rearing of calues.How to cure the wrigling of yetaile in a shéepe or a lambe.Of gelding horsecolts.A waie how to haue large bréede of hogs.A medicine for faint cattle.Howe to fasten loose téeth in a bullocke.How to preuent the breeding of the bots in horses.A medicine for thecowlaske.[E5]Of burieng dead cattle.A waie how to preserue bées.What is to be done with measeled hogs.What times are most méete for letting of horses blood.]
The Epistle to the Lord William Paget deceased, and the occasion first of this booke.
The Epistle to the Lord Thomas Paget, second sonne, and now heire to the Lord William Paget his father.
[The Epistel] To the Reader.
[An Introduction to the booke of husbandrie.]
[A Preface to the buier of this booke.The preface.]
The commoditie[s] of husbandrie.
The praise of husbandrie [by aredele].
The description of [husband &] husbandrie.
The ladder [of xxxiiij steps] tothrift.
Good husbandlie lessons worthie to be followed of such as will thriue.
An habitation inforced, [aduisedly] better late than neuer; [made] upon these wordes, Sit downe Robin and rest thée.
[The farmers dailie diet.
A description of the properties of winds all yetimes of the yere.
Of the Planets.]
Septembers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for September.]
Septembers husbandrie [with the nedeful furnyture of yebarne stable, plough, cart, yard, & field, togither with the manner of gathering hops, drying & keping them].
[A digression to husbandlie furniture.
The residue of Septembers husbandrie, agréeing with his former abstract.]
Octobers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for October.]
Octobers husbandrie.
[A digression to the vsage of diuers countries concerning tillage.
The residue of Octobers husbandrie, agréeing with his former abstract.]
Nouembers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for Nouember.]
Nouembers husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Decembers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for December.]
Decembers husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
A digression [directing] to hospitalitie.
A description of time, and the yere.
A description of life & riches.
A description of houskéeping.
A description of [the feast of the birth of Christ, commonlie called] Christmas.
A description of apt time to spend.
Against fantasticalscruplenes.
Christmas husbandlie fare.
A Christmas caroll [of the birth of Christ, vpon the tune of king Salomon].
Ianuaries abstract [and at the end thereof diuers sorts of trees and frutes to bee then set or remoued, following the order of yealphabet orcrosserowe].[E4]
[Other short remembrances for Ianuarie.
Of trées or fruites to be set or remooued.]
Ianuaries husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Februaries abstract.
[Other short remembrances for Februarie.]
Februaries husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Marches abstract [and at the ende therof, the names of the seedes, herbes, flowers & rootes than to be sowen or set, unles the time be otherwise noted by expresse wordes, as wel for kitchin herbes, strowing herbes & flowers, as herbes to stil & for phisick, set after the order of the alphabet or crosserowe].
[Other short remembrances for March.
Seedes and hearbes for the kitchen.
Herbes and rootes for sallets and sauce.
Herbs or rootes to boile or to butter.
Strowing herbs of all sorts.
Herbes, branches and flowers for windowes and pots.
Herbs to still in Summer.
Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Physicke not rehersed before.]
Marches husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstractwith the maner of setting of hops].
Aprils abstract.
Aprils husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstractwith a lesson for dairy maide Cisseley and of x toppings gests in hir whitmeat, better lost then found.]
[A digression to dairie matters.
A lesson for dairie maid Cisley of ten toppings gests.]
Maies abstract.
[Two other short remembrances for Maie.]
Maies husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Junes abstract.
[A lesson of hopyard.]
Junes husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract,with a lesson to chuse a meete plot for hopps and howe then to be doing with the same.]
[A lesson where and when to plant good hopyard.]
Julies abstract.
Julies husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstractand hay harvest].
Augusts abstract.
[Workes after haruest.]
Augusts husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract& corne haruest].
[Corne haruest equally diuided into ten partes.]
[The conclusion of the whole booke set out in12verses euery word beginning with a T yefirst letter of the Authors name.]
[A briefe conclusion in verse, euerie word beginning with a T.]
Mans age [divided into xij prentiships, from seuen yeares to fourescore and foure].
[A briefe description of thenclinations of mans age by the similitude of the Ape, Lion, Foxe, & the Asse.]
[Another diuision of the nature of mans age.]
A comparison betwéene good husband[rie] and [badeuill].
A comparison betwéene [woodland &Champion] countrie and Seuerall.
[The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.]
[A Sonet howe to set a candle afore the Deuill.]
A Sonet against a slaunderous tongue.
A Sonet [to his Lord & Master of his first vij yeres seruicevpon the Authors first seuen yeres seruice].
[The AuthorsA] dialogue betweene two Bachelers [batchillers], of wiuing & thriuing, by affirmation & negation [& the maryed mans iudgment thereof].
[The wedded mans iudgement taking vp the matter of wiuing and thriuing.
How ewes should be vsed that are néere lambing.
How lambes should be vsed when they are yoong.
What times are most méete for rearing of calues.
How to cure the wrigling of yetaile in a shéepe or a lambe.
Of gelding horsecolts.
A waie how to haue large bréede of hogs.
A medicine for faint cattle.
Howe to fasten loose téeth in a bullocke.
How to preuent the breeding of the bots in horses.
A medicine for thecowlaske.[E5]
Of burieng dead cattle.
A waie how to preserue bées.
What is to be done with measeled hogs.
What times are most méete for letting of horses blood.]
* * * Tusser's references to pages are omitted.
1[E6]T Time trieth thetroth,[E7]in euerie thing,H Herewith let men content their minde,[1]O Of works, which best may profit bring,M Most rash to iudge, most often blinde.A As therefore troth in time shall craue,S So let this booke iust fauor haue.2T Take you my Lord and Master than,U Vnlesse mischance mischanceth me,[E8]S Suchhomeliegift, of me your man,S Since more in Court I may not be,A And let your praise, wonne heretofore,R Remaine abrode for euermore.[E9]3M My seruing you, (thus vnderstand,)A And God his helpe, and yours withall,[E10]D Did cause good lucke to take mine hand,EErectingone most like to fall.M My seruing you, I know it was,E Enforced this to come to pas.4Since being once at Cambridge taught,Of Court ten yeeres I madeassaie,No Musicke then was left vnsaught,Such care I had to serue that waie.When ioie ganslake, then made I change,Expulsed[2]mirth, for Musicke strange.5My Musicke since hath bene the plough,Entangled with some careamong,The gaine not great, the paine ynough,Hath made me sing another song.Which song, if well I may auow,I craue it iudged be by yow.
1[E6]T Time trieth thetroth,[E7]in euerie thing,H Herewith let men content their minde,[1]O Of works, which best may profit bring,M Most rash to iudge, most often blinde.A As therefore troth in time shall craue,S So let this booke iust fauor haue.
2T Take you my Lord and Master than,U Vnlesse mischance mischanceth me,[E8]S Suchhomeliegift, of me your man,S Since more in Court I may not be,A And let your praise, wonne heretofore,R Remaine abrode for euermore.[E9]
3M My seruing you, (thus vnderstand,)A And God his helpe, and yours withall,[E10]D Did cause good lucke to take mine hand,EErectingone most like to fall.
M My seruing you, I know it was,E Enforced this to come to pas.
4Since being once at Cambridge taught,Of Court ten yeeres I madeassaie,No Musicke then was left vnsaught,Such care I had to serue that waie.When ioie ganslake, then made I change,Expulsed[2]mirth, for Musicke strange.
5My Musicke since hath bene the plough,Entangled with some careamong,The gaine not great, the paine ynough,Hath made me sing another song.Which song, if well I may auow,I craue it iudged be by yow.
Your seruant Thomas Tusser.
[1]How euery man doth please his mind. 1577.
[1]How euery man doth please his mind. 1577.
[2]Expelled. 1585.
[2]Expelled. 1585.
1My Lord, your father looued me,and you my Lord haue prooued me,and both your loues haue mooued me,to write as here is donne:Since God hath hence your father,such flowers as I gather,I dedicate now rather,to you my Lord his sonne.2Your father was my founder,till death became hiswounder,no subiect euer sounder,whome Prince aduancement gaue:As God did here defend him,and honour here did send him,so will I here commend him,as long as life I haue.3His neighbours then didblissehim,his seruants now doe misse him,the poore would gladlie kisse him,aliue againe to be:But God hath wrought his pleasure,and blest him, out of measure,with heauen and earthlie treasure,so good a God is he.Ceresthe Goddesse of husbandrie.4His counsell had I vsed,andCeresart refused,I neede not thus haue mused,nor droope as now I do:But I must plaie the farmer,and yet nowhitthe warmer,although I had hisarmer,and other comfort to.Æsops fable.5The Foxe doth make me minde him,whose glorie so did blinde him,till taile cut off behinde him,nofarecould him content:Euen so must I be proouing,such glorie I had in loouing,of things to ploughbehoouing,that makes me now repent.Salust.6LoiterersI kept someanie,both Philip, Hob, andCheanie,that, that waie nothinggeanie,was thought to make me thriue:LikeIugurth, Prince ofNumid,[E11]my gold awaie consumid,with losses so perfumid,[E12]was neuer none aliue.7Great fines so neere didpareme,great rent so much didskareme,great charge so long diddareme,that made me at length crie creake:[E13]Much more[2]of all such fleeces,[E14]as oft I lost bypeeces,among such wilie geecesI list no longer speake.8Though countrie health longstaidme,yetlesse[3]expiringfraidme,and (ictus sapit[E15]) praid meto seeke more steadie staie:New lessons then I noted,and some of them Icoted,[4]least some should think Idoted,by bringing naught awaie.Pallas, Goddesse of wisdome and cunning.9ThoughPallashath denide me,hir learned pen to guide me,for that she dailiespideme,with countrie how I stood:YetCeresso didboldme,with hir good lessons told me,thatrudenescannot hold me,from dooing countrie good.10By practise and illspeeding,these lessons had theirbreeding,and not byhearesaie, orreeding,as some abrode haueblowne:Who will not thus beleeue me,so much the more they greeue me,because they grudge to geeue me,that is of right mine owne.11At first for want of teaching,at first for triflesbreaching,at first forouer reaching,[5]and lacke of takinghid,[6]was cause thattoilesotostme,that practise so much cost me,that rashnes so much lost me,or hindred as it did.12Yet will I not despaierthorough Gods good gift so faierthrough friendship, gold, and praier,in countrie againe to dwell:Where rent so shall not paine me,but paines shall helpe to gaine me,and gaines shall helpe maintaine me,New lessons mo to tell.13For citie seemes awringer,thepeniefor to finger,from such as there doe linger,or for their pleasure lie:Though countrie be morepainfull,and not sogreedie gainfull,yet is it not sovainfull,in followingfansieseie.14I haue no labour wantedto prune this tree thus planted,whose fruite to none isscanted,in house or yet in feeld:Which fruite, the more ye taste of,the more to eate, ye haste of,the lesse this fruite ye waste of,[7]such fruite this tree doth yeeld.15My[8]tree or booke thusframed,with title alreadie named,I trust goes forth vnblamed,in your good Lordships name:As my good Lord I take you,and neuer will forsake you,so now I craue to make youdefender of the same.Your seruant Thomas Tusser.
1My Lord, your father looued me,and you my Lord haue prooued me,and both your loues haue mooued me,to write as here is donne:Since God hath hence your father,such flowers as I gather,I dedicate now rather,to you my Lord his sonne.
2Your father was my founder,till death became hiswounder,no subiect euer sounder,whome Prince aduancement gaue:As God did here defend him,and honour here did send him,so will I here commend him,as long as life I haue.
3His neighbours then didblissehim,his seruants now doe misse him,the poore would gladlie kisse him,aliue againe to be:But God hath wrought his pleasure,and blest him, out of measure,with heauen and earthlie treasure,so good a God is he.
Ceresthe Goddesse of husbandrie.
Ceresthe Goddesse of husbandrie.
4His counsell had I vsed,andCeresart refused,I neede not thus haue mused,nor droope as now I do:But I must plaie the farmer,and yet nowhitthe warmer,although I had hisarmer,and other comfort to.
Æsops fable.
Æsops fable.
5The Foxe doth make me minde him,whose glorie so did blinde him,till taile cut off behinde him,nofarecould him content:Euen so must I be proouing,such glorie I had in loouing,of things to ploughbehoouing,that makes me now repent.
Salust.
Salust.
6LoiterersI kept someanie,both Philip, Hob, andCheanie,that, that waie nothinggeanie,was thought to make me thriue:LikeIugurth, Prince ofNumid,[E11]my gold awaie consumid,with losses so perfumid,[E12]was neuer none aliue.
7Great fines so neere didpareme,great rent so much didskareme,great charge so long diddareme,that made me at length crie creake:[E13]Much more[2]of all such fleeces,[E14]as oft I lost bypeeces,among such wilie geecesI list no longer speake.
8Though countrie health longstaidme,yetlesse[3]expiringfraidme,and (ictus sapit[E15]) praid meto seeke more steadie staie:New lessons then I noted,and some of them Icoted,[4]least some should think Idoted,by bringing naught awaie.
Pallas, Goddesse of wisdome and cunning.
Pallas, Goddesse of wisdome and cunning.
9ThoughPallashath denide me,hir learned pen to guide me,for that she dailiespideme,with countrie how I stood:YetCeresso didboldme,with hir good lessons told me,thatrudenescannot hold me,from dooing countrie good.
10By practise and illspeeding,these lessons had theirbreeding,and not byhearesaie, orreeding,as some abrode haueblowne:Who will not thus beleeue me,so much the more they greeue me,because they grudge to geeue me,that is of right mine owne.
11At first for want of teaching,at first for triflesbreaching,at first forouer reaching,[5]and lacke of takinghid,[6]was cause thattoilesotostme,that practise so much cost me,that rashnes so much lost me,or hindred as it did.
12Yet will I not despaierthorough Gods good gift so faierthrough friendship, gold, and praier,in countrie againe to dwell:Where rent so shall not paine me,but paines shall helpe to gaine me,and gaines shall helpe maintaine me,New lessons mo to tell.
13For citie seemes awringer,thepeniefor to finger,from such as there doe linger,or for their pleasure lie:Though countrie be morepainfull,and not sogreedie gainfull,yet is it not sovainfull,in followingfansieseie.
14I haue no labour wantedto prune this tree thus planted,whose fruite to none isscanted,in house or yet in feeld:Which fruite, the more ye taste of,the more to eate, ye haste of,the lesse this fruite ye waste of,[7]such fruite this tree doth yeeld.
15My[8]tree or booke thusframed,with title alreadie named,I trust goes forth vnblamed,in your good Lordships name:As my good Lord I take you,and neuer will forsake you,so now I craue to make youdefender of the same.
Your seruant Thomas Tusser.
[1]In the edition of 1575 the word Thomas, and the words following Beaudesert, do not occur, and the whole Epistle precedes that to Lord William Paget.
[1]In the edition of 1575 the word Thomas, and the words following Beaudesert, do not occur, and the whole Epistle precedes that to Lord William Paget.
[2]mort. 1620.
[2]mort. 1620.
[3]lease. 1585 and 1620.
[3]lease. 1585 and 1620.
[4]quoted. 1585 and 1620.
[4]quoted. 1585 and 1620.
[5]reacing. 1599.
[5]reacing. 1599.
[6]hede. 1577.
[6]hede. 1577.
[7]Which fruite to say (who hast of)though nere so much they taste ofyet can they make no waste of. 1577.
[7]Which fruite to say (who hast of)though nere so much they taste ofyet can they make no waste of. 1577.
[8]this. 1573. 1577.
[8]this. 1573. 1577.
1I have been praidto shew mine aid,in takingpaine,not for the gaine,but for good will,to shew such skillas shew I could:That husbandriewith huswiferieas cock and hen,to countrie men,allstrangenesgone,might ioine in one,as louers should.2I trust both thisperformed is,and how that hereit shall appere,with iudgement right,to thy delight,is brought to passe:That such as wiue,and faine would thriue,be plainly taughthow good from naughtmaytrimbe tride,andliuely spide,as in a glasse.3What should I win,by writing inmy losses past,that ran as fastas running streame,fromreameto reamethat flowes so swift?For that I couldnot get forgould,to teach me how,as this doth yow,through daily gaine,the waie so plaineto come by thrift.4What is a groteor twaine to note,once in the lifefor man or wife,to saue a pound,in house or ground,ech other weeke?[E16]What more for health,what more for wealth,what needeth lesse,run Iack, helpe Besse,to staie amis,not hauing this,far off to seeke?5I do not crauemo thankes to haue,than giuen to mealreadie be,but this is allto such as shallperuse this booke:That for my sake,they gently take,where ere they findeagainst their minde,when he or sheshall minded betherein to looke.6And grant me now,thou reader thow,of termes to vse,such choise to chuse,as may delightthe countriewight,and knowledge bring:For such doe praisethe countrie phraise,the countrie acts,the countrie facts,the countrie toies,before the ioiesof anie thing.7Nor looke thou herethat euerieshere[E17]of euerie verseI thus rehersemay profit takeorvantagemakeby lessons such:For here we seethings seuerall bee,and there nodike,but champion like,and sandie soile,and claiey toile,doe suffer[1]much.8This[2]being waid,be not afraidtobuieto proue,to reade with loue,to followe some,and so to comeby practise true:My paine is past,thou warning hast,th' experience mine,the vantage thine,may giue thee choiceto crie or reioice:and thusadue.Finis T. Tusser.
1I have been praidto shew mine aid,in takingpaine,not for the gaine,but for good will,to shew such skillas shew I could:That husbandriewith huswiferieas cock and hen,to countrie men,allstrangenesgone,might ioine in one,as louers should.
2I trust both thisperformed is,and how that hereit shall appere,with iudgement right,to thy delight,is brought to passe:That such as wiue,and faine would thriue,be plainly taughthow good from naughtmaytrimbe tride,andliuely spide,as in a glasse.
3What should I win,by writing inmy losses past,that ran as fastas running streame,fromreameto reamethat flowes so swift?For that I couldnot get forgould,to teach me how,as this doth yow,through daily gaine,the waie so plaineto come by thrift.
4What is a groteor twaine to note,once in the lifefor man or wife,to saue a pound,in house or ground,ech other weeke?[E16]What more for health,what more for wealth,what needeth lesse,run Iack, helpe Besse,to staie amis,not hauing this,far off to seeke?
5I do not crauemo thankes to haue,than giuen to mealreadie be,but this is allto such as shallperuse this booke:That for my sake,they gently take,where ere they findeagainst their minde,when he or sheshall minded betherein to looke.
6And grant me now,thou reader thow,of termes to vse,such choise to chuse,as may delightthe countriewight,and knowledge bring:For such doe praisethe countrie phraise,the countrie acts,the countrie facts,the countrie toies,before the ioiesof anie thing.
7Nor looke thou herethat euerieshere[E17]of euerie verseI thus rehersemay profit takeorvantagemakeby lessons such:For here we seethings seuerall bee,and there nodike,but champion like,and sandie soile,and claiey toile,doe suffer[1]much.
8This[2]being waid,be not afraidtobuieto proue,to reade with loue,to followe some,and so to comeby practise true:My paine is past,thou warning hast,th' experience mine,the vantage thine,may giue thee choiceto crie or reioice:and thusadue.
Finis T. Tusser.
[1]differ. 1573; suffer. 1577.
[1]differ. 1573; suffer. 1577.
[2]Thus. 1577.
[2]Thus. 1577.
1Good husbandmen mustmoile& toile,to laie to liue by laboured feeld:Their wiues at home must keepe suchcoile,[E18]as their like actes may profit yeeld.For well they knowe,as shaft from bowe,or chalke from snowe,A good round rent their Lords they giue,and must keepe touch in all their paie:Withcredit cracktelse for to liue,or trust to legs and run awaie.Ceres, Goddesse of husbandry.2Though fence well kept is one good point,andtilthwell done, in season due;Yet needingsaluein time to annoint,isall in alland needfull true:As for the rest,thus thinke I best,as friend dothgest,With hand in hand to leade thee foorthtoCerescampe, there to beholdA thousand things as richlie woorth,as any pearle is woorthie gold.
1Good husbandmen mustmoile& toile,to laie to liue by laboured feeld:Their wiues at home must keepe suchcoile,[E18]as their like actes may profit yeeld.For well they knowe,as shaft from bowe,or chalke from snowe,A good round rent their Lords they giue,and must keepe touch in all their paie:Withcredit cracktelse for to liue,or trust to legs and run awaie.
Ceres, Goddesse of husbandry.
Ceres, Goddesse of husbandry.
2Though fence well kept is one good point,andtilthwell done, in season due;Yet needingsaluein time to annoint,isall in alland needfull true:As for the rest,thus thinke I best,as friend dothgest,With hand in hand to leade thee foorthtoCerescampe, there to beholdA thousand things as richlie woorth,as any pearle is woorthie gold.
Though fence well kept is one good point,
[1]This Introduction is not in the editions of 1573 or 1577.
[1]This Introduction is not in the editions of 1573 or 1577.
1What lookest thou herein to haue?Fine verses thy fansie to please?Of many my betters that craue,Lookenothing but rudenes in thease.[E19]2What other thing lookest thou then?Graue sentences many to finde?Such, Poets haue twentie and ten,Yea thousands contenting the minde.3What looke ye, I praie you shew what?Termespaintedwith Rhetorike fine?Good husbandrie seeketh not that,Noristany meaning of mine.4What lookest thou, speake at the last?Good lessons for thee and thy wife?Then keepe them in memorie fast,To helpe as a comfort to life.5What looke ye for more in my booke?Points needfull and meete to be knowne?Then dailie be suer to looke,To saue to be suer thine owne.
1What lookest thou herein to haue?Fine verses thy fansie to please?Of many my betters that craue,Lookenothing but rudenes in thease.[E19]
2What other thing lookest thou then?Graue sentences many to finde?Such, Poets haue twentie and ten,Yea thousands contenting the minde.
3What looke ye, I praie you shew what?Termespaintedwith Rhetorike fine?Good husbandrie seeketh not that,Noristany meaning of mine.
4What lookest thou, speake at the last?Good lessons for thee and thy wife?Then keepe them in memorie fast,To helpe as a comfort to life.
5What looke ye for more in my booke?Points needfull and meete to be knowne?Then dailie be suer to looke,To saue to be suer thine owne.
* * * Mason remarks that this metre was peculiar to Shenstone.[E20]