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APRILS
ABSTRACT
SOME
champions laie Sum
cuntries lack ploughmeat,
to
fallow in Maie. and
some do want cowmeat.
When
tilth plows breake, Small
commons and bare,
poore
cattle cries creake. yeelds
cattell ill fare.
One
daie er ye plow, Som
common with geese,
spred
compas ynow. and
sheep without fleece.
Som
tits thither bring,
Dome
fodder buieth, and
hogs without ring.
in
fen where it lieth.
Some
champions agree
Thou
champion wight, as
wasp doth with bee.
have
cow meat for night.
Get
swineherd for hog,
Set
hop his pole, but
kill not with dog.
make
deep the hole. Wher
swineherd doth lack.
corne
goeth to wrack.
First,
bark go and sell,
er
timber ye fell. All
goes to the Devill,
where
shepherd is evill.
Fence
copie in,
er
heawers begin. Come
home from land,
with
stone in hand
The
straightest ye knowe,
for
staddles let growe. Man
cow provides,
wife
dairie guides.
Crab
tree preserve,
for
plough to serve. Slut
Cisley untaught,
hath
whitemeat naught.
Get
timber out,
er
yeere go about. Such
mistress, such Nan,
such
maister, such man.
Some
bringeth in gaines,
some
losse beside paines.
Run
Cissie, fault known,
with
more than thine own.
APRILS
HUSBANDRIE
IN
Cambridge shire forward to Lincolne shire way,
the
champion maketh his fallow in maie,
Then
thinking so dooing one tillage woorth twaine,
by
forcing of weede, by that means to refraine.
If
April be dripping, then doo I not hate,
(for
him that hath little) his fallowing late.
Else
otherwise fallowing timelie is best,
for
saving of cattel, of plough and the rest.
Be
suer of plough to be readie at hand,
er
compas ye spread that on hillock did stand.
least
drieng so lieng, doo make it decaie,
er
ever much water do wash it away.
Look
now to provide ye of meadows for hay,
if
fennes be undrowned, there cheapest ye may.
In
fen for the bullock, for horse do not well,
count
best the best cheap, wheresoever ye dwell.
Provide
ye of cowmeate, for cattel at night,
and
chiefly where commons lie far out of sight.
Where
cattel lie tied without any meat,
that
profit by dairiecan never be great.
Get
into thy hopyard with plentie of poles, Put
poles to your hophills
amongst
those same hillocks devide them by doles.
Three
ploes to a hillock (I pas not how long)
shall
yeild thee more profit, set deeply and strong.
Sell
bark to the tanner er timber yee fell, Felling
of timber
cut
low by the ground or else doo ye not well.
In
breaking save crooked, for mill and for ships,
and
ever in hewing save carpenters chips.
First
see it well fenced er hewers begin,
then
see it well stadled without and within;
Thus
being preserved and husbandlie donne,
shall
sooner raise profit, to thee or thy sonne.
Leave
growing for stadles the likest and best, Stadling
of woods.
though
seller and buier dispatched the rest.
In
bushes, in hedgerow, in grove and in wood,
this
lesson observed is needful and good.
Save
elm, ash and crabtree, for cart and for plough,
save
step for a stile, the the crotch of the bough.
Save
hazel for forks, save sallow for rake,
save
hulver and thorne, thereof flaile for to make.
Make
riddence of carriage, er yeere go about, Discharge
thy woods
for
spoiling of plant that is newly come out.
To
carter (with oxen) this message I bring,
leave
oxen abrode for anoieng the spring.
Allowance
of fodder some countries doo yeeld,
as
good for the cattel as hay in the field.
Some
mowe up their hedlonds and plots among corne,
and
driven to leave nothing, unmowne, or unshorne.
Some
commons are barren, the nature is such,
and
some over laieth the common too much.
The
pestered commons small profit doth geeve,
and
profit as little some reape I beleeve.
Some
pester the commons, with jades and with geese,
with
hog without ring and with sheep without fleese.
Some
loose a daie labour with seeking their own,
some
meet with a bootie they would not have known.
Great
troubles and losses the champion sees,
and
ever in brauling, as wasps among bees.
As
charitie that way appeereth but small,
so
lesse be their winnings, or nothing at all.
Where
champion wanteth a swineherd for hog,
there
many complaineth of naughtie mans dog.
Where
ech his own keeper appoints without care,
there
corne be destroyed er man be aware.
The
land is well harted with help of the fold,
for
one or two crops, if so long it will hold.
If
shepherd would keep them of stroieng of corne,
the
walke of his sheep might the better be borne.
Where
stones be too manie, annoieng thy land,
make
servant come home with a stone in his hand.
By
daily so dooing, have plentie yee shall,
both
handsome for paving and good for a wall.
From
April beginning, till Andrew be past, Dairie
matters
so
long with good huswif, hir dairie doth last.
Good
milchcow and pasture, good husbands provide,
the
resdue good huswives knowes best how to guide.
Ill
huswife unskilful to make her own chees, Ill
huswferie
through
trusting of others hath this for hir fees.
Her
milk pan and creame pot, so slabbered and sost,
that
butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.
Where
some of a cow doo raise yeerlie a pound,
with
such sellie huswives no penie is found.
Then
dairie maid (Cisley) hir fault being known,
away
apace trudgeth, with more than hir own.
Then
neighbour, for Gods sake, if any you see,
good
servant for dairie house, waine her to mee.
Such
maister such man, and such mistress such maid,
such
husband and huswife, such houses araid,
A
LESSON FOR
DAIRY
MAID CISLEY
OF
TEN TOPPINGS GESTS
As
wife that will So
Cisse that serves
good
husband plese, must
marke this note
Must
shun with skill What
fault deserves
such
gests as these. a
brushed cote.
Gehezie,
Lots wife, and Argusses eies, Ten
toppings gests unsent for
Tom
piper, poore Cobler, and Lazerus thies,
Rough
Esau, with Mawdlin, and Gentils that scall,
With
Bishop that burneth, thus knowe ye them all.
These
toppingly gests be in number but ten,
As
welcome in dairie as Beares among men.
Which
being descried, take heede of you shall,
For
danger of after claps, after that fall.
Gehezie
his sickness was whiteish and drie, White
not drie
such
cheeses, good Cisley, ye floated too nie.
Lease
Lot with her pliier (good Cisley) alone, Too
salt
much
saltnes in whitemeat is ill for the stone.
If
cheeses in the dairie have Argusses eies Full
of eies
tell
Cicily the fault in hir huswiferie lies.
Tom
Piper hath hoven and puffed up cheekes Hoven
if
cheese be so hoven, make Cissie to seeke creekes.
Poore
Cobler he tugged his leatherlie trash, Tough
if
cheese abide tugging, tug Cisley a crash.
If
Lazer so lothsome in cheese be espied Full
of spots
let
baies amend Cisley, or shift hir aside.
Rough
Esau was hearie from top to the fut, Full
of heares.
if
cheese so appeareth, call Cisley a slut.
As
Mawdlin wept, so would Cisley be drest, Full
of Whey
for
whey in hir cheese, not hald enough prest.
If
gentils be scrauling, call magget the pt, Full
of gentils
if
cheeses have gentils, at Cissie by and by.
Blesse
Cissie (good mistres) that Bishop doth ban, Burnt
to the pan.
for
burning the milk of hir cheese to the pan.
It
thou (so oft beaten) I
will no more threaten,
amendest
by this: I
promise thee Cis.
Thus
dairie maid Cisley, rehersed ye see,
what
faults with ill huswife, in dairie house bee.
of
market abhorred, to household a griefe,
to
maister and mistris, as ill as a thiefe.
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