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FEBRUARIES
ABSTRACT
LAY
compas ynow, To
oxen that drawe,
er
ever ye plow. give
hay and not strawe.
To
steeres ye may
Place
doong heapes alowe, mixe strawe
with hay.
more
barlie to growe.
Much
carting, ill tillage,
Eat
etch er ye plow, makes
som to flie village.
with
hog sheep and cow.
Sowe
lintels ye may, Use
cattle aright,
and
peason gray. to
keepe them in plight.
Keepe
white unsowne,
till
more be knowne. Good
quickset bie,
old
gatherd will die.
Sow
pease (good trull)
the
Moone past full. Stick
bows a rowe,
Fine
seedes then sowe, where runcivals
growe.
whilst
Moone doth growe.
Sowe
kirnals and hawe,
Boy,
follow the plough, where ridge
ye did drawe.
and
harrow inough.
So
harrow ye shall, Sowe
mustard seed,
till
coverd be all. and
helpe to kill weed.
Where
sets do growe,
Sowe
pease not too thin, see nothing
ye sowe.
er
plough ye set in.
Cut
vines and osier,
Late
sowen sore noieth, plash hedge
of enclosure.
late
ripe, hog stroieth. Feed
highly thy swan,
to
love hir good man.
Some
provinder save Nest
high I advise,
for
plowhorse to have. least
floud doe arise.
Lnad
meadow spare, Let
wheat and the rie,
there
doong is good ware. for
thresher still lie.
Such
strawe some save,
Go
strike off the nowles, for
thacker to have.
of
delving mowles.
Such
hillocks in vaine Poor
cunnie, so bagged,
lay
levelled plaine. is
soone over lagged.
Plash
burrow, set clapper,
To
wet the land, for
dog is a snapper.
let
mowle hill stand
Good
flight who loves,
Poore
cattle crave must
feed their doves.
some
shift to have. Bid
hauking adew,
cast
haule into mew.
Cow
little giveth
that
hardly liveth. Keepe
sheepe out of briers,
keepe
beast out of miers.
Rid
barlie al now, Keepe
lambes from fox,
cleane
out of thy mow. else
shepherd go box.
Choice
seed out drawe,
save
cattle the strawe. Good
neighbour mine,
now
yoke thy swine.
To
coast man ride Now
everie day,
Lent
stuffe to provide. Set
hops ye may.
OTHER
SHORT Nowe
set for thy pot,
REMEMBRANCES
best
herbes to be got.
Trench
medow and redge, For
flowers go set,
dike,
quickset, and hedge. all
sorts ye can get.
To
plots not full,
ad
bremble and hull. As
winter doth proove,
so
may ye remoove.
Watch
ponds, go looke, Now
all things reare,
to
weeles and hook, for
all the yeare
Knaves
seld repent
to
steale in Lent. Alls
fish they get,
that
cometh to net.
Who
muck regards,
makes
hillocks in yards.
FEBUARIES
HUSBANDRIES
WHO
laieth on doong er he laieth on plow,
such
husbandrie useth as thrift doth alow.
One
month er ye spred it, so still let it stand,
er
ever to plow it, ye take it in hand.
Place
doong heap a low by the furrough along,
where
water all winter time did it such wrong.
So
make ye the land to be lustie and fat,
and
corne thereon sowen be better for that.
Go
plow in the stubble, for now is the season,
for
sowing of fitchis, of beanes and of peason.
Sowe
runcivals timelie, and all that be gray,
but
sowe not the white till S. Gregories day.
Sowe
peason and beanes in the wane of the Moone,
who
soweth them sooner, he soweth too soone.
That
they with the planet may rest and arise,
and
flourish with bearing most plentifull wise.
Friend,
harrow in time, by some maner of meanes,
not
only thy peason but also thy beanes.
Unharrowed
die, being buried in clay,
where
haoowed flourish, as flowers in May.
Both
peason and beanes sowe afore ye doo plow,
the
sooner ye harrow the better for yow.
White
peason so good for the purse and the pot:
let
them be well used else weel doo ye not.
Have
eie unto harvest what ever ye sowe,
for
feare of mischances of riping too slow.
Least
corne be destroied, contrarie to right,
by
hogs or by cattel, by day or by night.
Good
provender labouring horses would have.,
good
haie and good plentie, plow oxen doo crave.
To
hale out the muck and to plow up thy ground:
or
else it will hinder thee many a pound.
Who
slacketh his tillage, a carter to bee,
for
grote got abrode, at home loss shall three.
And
so by his dooing he brings out of hart
both
land for the corne and horse for the cart.
Who
abuseth his cattle and serves then for meat,
by
carting or plowing, his gaine is not great.
When
he that with labour can use them aright,
hath
gain to his comfort and cattle in plight.
Buie
quickset at market, new gatherd and small,
buie
bushes or willow, to fence it withall.
Set
willows to growe, in the steede of a stake,
for
cattel in sommer, a shadow to make.
Stick
plentie of bows among runcivall pease
to
climber thereon, and to catch at their ease. Runcival
peason.
So
dooing, more tender and greater they wex,
if
peacock and turkey leave jobbing their bex.
Now
sowe and go harrow (where redge ye did draw)
the
seed of the bremble, with kernell and haw.
Which
covered overlie, soone to shut out,
go
see it be ditched and fenced about.
Where
banks be amended and newly upcast, Sowe
mustard seede
sow
mustard seed after a shower be past.
Where
plots full of nettles be noisome to eie,
sowe
thereupon hempseed, and nettle will die.
The
vines and the osiers cut and go set, Cut
or set vines
if
grape be unpleasant, a better go get.
Feed
swan and go make hir up strongly a nest,
for
feare of a floud, good and high is the best.
Land
meadow that yearly is spared for hay, Catching
of mowls
noe
fence it and spare it, and doong it ye may.
Get
mowle catcher cunninglie mowle for to kill,
and
haoow and cast abrode everie hill.
Where
meadow or pasture to mowe ye doo laie,
let
mowle be despatched some maner of waie,
The
cast abrode mowlhill, as flat as ye can,
for
many commodities following than.
If
pasture by nature is given to be wet,
then
bare with the mowlhill, though thick it be set.
That
lambe may sit on it, and so to sit drie,
or
else to lie by it, the warmer to lie.
Friend,
alway let this be a part of thy care, Looke
well to thy fence
for
shift of good pasture, lay pasture to spare.
So
have you good feeding, in bushets and lease,
and
quickly safe finding of cattel at ease.
Where
cattel may run about, roving at wil,
from
pasture to pasture, poor bellie to fil,
There
pasture and cattel both hungrie and bare,
for
want of good husbandrie worser do fare.
Now
thresh out thy barlie, for malt or for seed,
for
bread corne (as need be) to serve as shall need.
If
worke for the thresher ye mind for to have,
of
wheat and of mestlen untreshed go save.
Now
timlie for Lent stuffe thy monie disburse,
the
longer ye tarie for profit the wurse,
If
one pennie vantage be therin to save,
of
coast man of fleming be sure to have.
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