| JANUARIES
ABSTRACT
Bid
Christmas adew, Let
Doe go to buck
thy
stock now renew with
Conie good luck.
Spare
labour nor monie,
Who
killeth a neat, store
borough with conie.
hath
cheaper his meat. Get
warrener bound
Fat
home fed souse, to
vermin thy ground.
is
good in a house Feed
doves, but kill not,
if
loose them ye will not.
Who
dainties love Dove
house repaire,
a
begger shall proove. make
Doovehole faire.
Who
alway selles, For
hop ground cold,
in
hunger dwelles. Dove
doong woorth gold.
Who
nothing save, Good
gardner mine,
shall
nothing have. make
garden fine,
Set
garden pease,
Lay
durt upon heapes, and
beanes if ye please,
some
profit it reapes. Set
repis and Rose,
When
weather is hard, yoong
rootes of those.
get
muck out of yard.
A
fallowe bestowe, The
timely buier
where
pease shall growe. hath
cheaper his fier.
Good
peason and white,
a
fallow will quite. Some
burns without wit,
some
fierless sit.
Go
gather quickset,
the
yongest go get. Now
season is good
Dig
garden, stroy mallow, to
lop or fell wood.
set
willow and sallow. Prune
trees some allows
Greene
willow for stake for
cattle to brows.
in
bank will take.
Give
sheepe to their fees Eawes
readie to yeane
the
misle of trees. craves
ground rid cleane.
Keep
sheep out of briers,
Let
lop be shorne Keep
beast out of miers.
that
hindreth corne.
Save
edder and stake Keep
bushes from bill,
strong
hedge to make. till
hedge ye will:
Best
had for thy turne,
For
sap as ye knowe. their
rootes go and burne.
let
one bough growe.
Next
yeare ye may No
bushes of mine,
that
bough cut away. if
fence be thine.
A
lesson good In
stubbed plot,
to
encrease more wood. fill
hole with clot.
Save
crotchis of wud, Rid
grasse of bones,
save
spars and stud. of
sticks and stones.
Save
hop for his dole,
the
strong long pole. Warme
barth give lams,
good
food to their dams,
How
ever ye scotch, Look
daily well to them,
save
pole and crotch. least
dogs undoo them.
From
Christmas to May, Yoong
lams well sold,
weake
cattle decay. fat
lambs worth goold.
With
vergis aquaint Keepe
twinnes for breed,
poore
bullock so faint; as
eawes have need.
This
medcin approoved
is
for to be looved. One
calf if it please ye,
now
reared shall ease ye.
Let
plaister lie Calves
likely reare,
three
daies to trie: at
rising of yeare.
too
long if ye stay, Calfe
large and leane
taile
rots away. is
best to weane.
Calfe
lickt take away, Breede
ever the best,
and
howse it ye may. and
doo of the rest,
This
point I allow Of
long and large,
for
sevant and cow. take
huswife a charge.
Calves
yonger that other, Good
cow & good ground
learne
of one another. yeelds
yearly a pound,
Good
faring sow
No
danger at all holds
profit with cow.
to
geld as they fall.
Yet
Michel cries Who
keepes but twaine,
please
butchers eies. the
more may gaine.
Sowe
ready to fare, Tith
justly, good garson,
craves
huswives care. else
drive will the parson.
Leave
sow but five Thy
garden twifallow,
the
better to thrive stroy
hemlock and mallow.
Weane
such for store Like
practise they proove,
as
sucks before. that
hops do loove.
Weane
only but three
large
breeders to bee. Now
make and wand in,
trim
bower to stand in.
Lamb,
bulchin, and pig, Leave
wadling about,
geld
under the big. till
arbour be out.
Learne
wit, sir dolt, Who
now sowes otes,
in
gelding of colt. gets
gold and groates
Who
sowes in May
Geld
yoong thy filly, gets
little that way.
else
perish with ginny.
Let
gelding alone, Go
break up land,
so
large of bone. get
mattock in hand,
By
breathly tits Stub
root so tough,
few
profit hits. for
breaking of plough.
What
greater crime In
casting provide,
than
losse of time? for
seede lay aside.
Get
dooing friend mine,
Lay
land or lease for
stock and vine.
breake
up if ye please.
But
fallow not yet, If
earth be not soft,
that
hast any wit. go
dig it aloft.
For
quamier get bootes,
Where
drink ye sowe, stub
alders and rootes.
good
tilthe bestowe.
Hop
poles waxe scant,
Small
profit is found, for
poles more plant.
by
peeling of ground. Set
chestnut and walnut,
set
filbeard and smalnut.
Land
past the best
cast
up to rest. Peach,
plumtree, & cherie,
yoong
bay and his berie.
Or
set their stone.
unset
leave out none.
Sowe
kirnals to beare,
of
apples and peare.
Other
short All
trees that bear goom
Remembrances
set
now as they coom.
Get
pulling hooks (sirs) Now
set or remoove
for
broome and firs. such
stocks as ye loove.
Pluck
broome, broome still,
cut
broome, broome kill.
Broome
pluckt by and by,
breake
up for rie.
Friend
ringlr thy hog,
or
look for a dog.
OF
TREES OR FRUITES TO BE SET OR REMOVED
Apples
trees of all sorts Mulberie
Apricocks
Peaches,
white and red
Barberies
Peares
of all sorts
Boollesse,
black & white Perareplums,
black and yellow
Cheries,
red and black Quince
trees
Chestnuts
Respis
Cornet
plums Reisons
Damsens,
white and black Small
nuts
Filbeards,
red and white Strawberies,
red and white
Goose
beries Service
trees
Grapes,
white and red Walnuts
Greene
or grasse plums Wardens,
white and red
Hurtillberies
Wheat
plums
Medlars
or marles
Now
set ye may
the
box and bay
Haithorne
and prim
for
clothes trim
JANUARIES
HUSBANDRIE
When
Christmas is ended, bid feasting adue, Husbandly
lessons
goe
play the good husband, thy stock to renue.
Be
mindful of rearing, in hope of a gaine,
dame
profit shall give thee reward for thy paine.
Who
both by his calfe and his lamb will be knowne,
may
well kill a neate and a sheep of his owne.
And
he that can reare up a pig in his house,
hath
cheaper his bacon and sweeter his souse.
Who
eateth his veale, pig and lamb bring forth,
shall
twise in a week go to bed without broth.
Unskilful
that passe not, but sell away sell,
shall
never have plentie ehere ever they dwell.
Be
greedie in spending, and carles to save,
and
shortly be needie and reaie to crave.
Be
wilfull to kill and unskilfull to store,
and
looke for no foison, I tell theee before.
Lay
dirt upon heapes, faire yard to be seene,
if
frost will abide it, to feeld with it cleene.
In
winter a fallow some love to bestowe,
where
pease for the pot they intend for to sowe.
In
making or mending as needeth thy ditch, Quick
set now
get
set to quick set it, learne cunningly whitch.
In
hedging (where clay is) get stake as ye knowe,
of
poplar and willow, for fewell to growe.
Leave
killing of conie, let Doe go to buck,
and
vermine thy burrow, for feare of ill luck.
Feed
dove (no more killing), old Dove house repair, Keepe
cleane thy dove house
save
dove dong for hopyard, when house ye make faire.
Dig
garden, stroy mallow, now may ye at ease,
and
set (as a daintie) thy runcivall pease. Runcival
peason
Go
cut and set roses, choose aptly thy plot,
the
rootes of the youngest are best to be got.
In
time go and bargaine, lest worser doo fall Timely
provision for fewell
for
fewell, for making, for carriage and all.
To
buie at the stub is the best for the buier,
more
timely provision, the cheaper is fier.
Some
burneth a load at a time in his hall Ill
husbandrie
some
never leave burning til burnt they have all.
Some
making of havock, without any wit,
make
many poore soules without fier to sit.
If
frost doo continue, this lesson doth well, Pruning
of trees
for
comfort of cattel the fewell to fell:
For
everie tree that superfluous bows
now
prune for thy neat thereupon to go brows.
In
pruning and trimming all manner of trees,
reserve
to each cattel their properly fees.
If
snowe do continue, sheepe hardly that fare, Mistle
and Ivie
crave
Mistle and Ivie for them for to spare.
Now
lop for thy fewell old pollenger growen, Lopping
of pollengers
that
hinder the corne or the grasse to be mowen.
In
lopping and felling save edder and stake,
thine
hedges as needeth to mend or to make.
In
lopping old Jocham, for feare of mishap,
one
bough stay unlopped, to cherish the sap:
The
second yeere after then boldly ye may,
for
driping his fellowes, that bow cut away.
Lop
poplar and sallow, elme, maple, and prie, The
propertie of soft wood
well
save from cattle, till Sommer to lie.
So
far as in lopping, their tops ye doo fling,
so
far without planting yoong copie will spring.
Such
fewell as standing a late ye have bought,
now
fell it, and make it, and doo as ye ought.
Give
charge to the hewers (that many things mars),
to
hew out for crotches, for poles and for spars.
If
hopyard or orchard ye mindful to have, Hoppoles
and crotches
for
hoppoles and crotches in lopping go save.
Which
husbandlie spared may serve at a push,
and
stop by so having two gaps with a bush.
From
Christmas, till May be well entered in,
some
cattel wax faint, and looke poorely and thin,
And
chiefly when prime grasse at first doth appeere,
then
most is the danger of moast the whole yeere.
Take
vergis and heate it, a pint for a cow, A
medcin for faint cattell
bay
salt a hand full, to rub tong, ye wot how.
That
done, with the salt, let hir drinke of the rest:
this
manie times raises the feeble up best.
Poore
bullock with browsing and naughtily fed, To
fasten loose teeth in a scarce feedeth, hir teeth be
so loose in hir head: bullock
Then
slise ye the tail where ye felleth it so soft,
with
soot and with garlicke bound to it aloft.
By
brembles and bushes, in pasture too full, Ewes
upon eaning
poore
sheepe be in danegr and looseth their wull.
Now
therefore thy ewe, upon lambing so neere,
desireth
in pasture that all may be cleere.
Leave
grubbling or pulling of bushes (my sonne)
till
timely thy fences require to be donne.
Then
take of the best for to furnish thy turne,
and
hone with the rest, for the fier to burne.
In
everie greene, if the fence be not thine,
now
stub up the bushes, the grasse to be fine. Stubbing
of greenes
Least
neighbour doo dailie so hack them believe,
that
neiter thy bushes nor pasture can thrive.
In
ridding of pastures with turfes that lie by,
fill
everie hole up, as close as a dy.
The
labour is little, the profit is gay,
what
ever thr loitering labourers say.
The
sticks and the stones go gather up cleene,
for
hurting of sieth or harming of greene.
For
feare of Hew prowler, get home with the rest,
when
frost isat hardest, then carriage is best.
Yoong
broome or good pasture thy ewes doo require,
warme
barth and in safeie their lambes doo desire. Yoong
lambes.
Lokke
often well to them, for foxes and dogs,
for
pits and for brembles, for vermin and hogs.
More
dainties the lambe, the more woorth to be sold,
the
sooner the better for ewe that is old.
But
of ye doo minde to have milk of the dame,
till
maie doo not sever the lambe fro the same.
Ewes
yearly by twinning rich masters doo make, Rearing
of lambes
the
lamb of such twinners for breeders to take.
For
twinlings be twiggers, encrease fo to bring,
though
som for their twigging Peccantem may sing.
Calves
likely that come between Christmas and Lent, Rearing
of calves.
take
huswife to reare, or else after repent:
Of
such as doo fall between change and the prime,
no
rearing, but sell or go kill them in time.
Howse
calfe, and go sockle it twise in a day, Howsing
of cattel
and
after a while set it water and hay.
Stake
ragged to rub on, no such as will bend,
then
weane it well tended, at fiftie daies end.
The
senior weaned his yoonger shall teach,
how
both to drinke water and hay for to reach.
More
stroken and made of when ought it do aile,
more
gentle ye make it for yoke of the paile.
Geld
bulcalfe and ramlamb, as soon as they fall, Of
gelding
for
therein is lightly no dnager at all.
Some
spareth the ton for to pleasure the eie,
to
have him shew greater when butcher shall bie.
Sowes
ready to farrow this time of the yeere
are
for to be made of and counted full deere.
For
now is the loss of a fare of the sow
more
greater than the losse of two calves of thy cow.
Of
one sow togither reare few above five, Rearing
of pigs
and
those of the fairest and likest to thrive.
Ungelt
of the best keepe a couple for store,
one
bore pig, one sow pig, that sucketh before.
Who
hath a desire to have store very large, A
way to have large
at
Witsuntide let him give huswife a charge, breed
of hogs
To
reare of a sow at once onely but three,
and
one of them also a bore let it bee.
Geld
under the dam, withing fortnight at least, Gelding
time
and
save both thy monie and life of the beast.
Geld
later with gelders as many one do,
and
looke of a dozen to geld away two.
Thy
colts for thy saddle geld yoong to be light, Gelding
of horse coltes
for
cart do not so, if thou judgest aright.
Nor
geld not but when they be lustie and fat:
for
there is a point, to be learned in that.
Geld
filles (but tits) er an nine days of age, Gelding
of filles
they
die esle of gelding (or gelders do rag).
Yoong
fils so likelie of bulk and of bone,
keepe
such to be breeders, let gelding alone.
For
gaining a trifle sell never thy store, Reare
the fairest of things
what
joye to aquaintence, what pleasureth more?
The
larger of bodie, the better for breede:
more
forward of growing, the better they speed.
Good
milchcow, well fed that is faire and sound, Of
sow and cow.
is
yeerly for profit as good as a pound:
And
yet by the yeere, I have prooved er now,
as
good to the purse is a sow as a cow.
Keepe
one and keepe both, with as little a cost,
then
all shall be saved and nothing be lost.
Both
having togither what profit is caught,
good
huswives (I warrent ye) need not be taught.
For
lamb, pig and calfe, and for other the like,
tithe
so as thy cattle the Lord doo not strike.
Or
if yee deale guilefully, parson will dreve,
and
so to your selfe a worse turne ye may geve.
Thy
garden plot latelie well trenched and muckt,
would
now be twifallowed, the mallowes out pluckt,
Well
cleased and purged of roote and of stone,
that
falt theirin afterward found may be none.
Remember
thy hopyard, if season be drie, Weeding
of hopyard
now
dig it and weed it, and so let it lie.
More
fennie the laier the better his lust,
more
apt to beare hops when it crumbles like dust.
To
arbor begun, and quick setted about, Trimming
of arbors
no
ploing nor wadling till set be far out.
For
rotten and aged may stand for a shew,
but
hold to their tacking there do but a few.
In
Janivere husband that poucheth the groates Sowing
of otes, Late
will
break up his laie, or be sowing of otes, sowing
not good
Otes
sowen in Janivere, laie by the wheat,
in
May by the hay for the cattle to eat.
Let
servent be readie, with mattock in hand,
to
stub out the bushes that noieth the land:
And
cumbersome rootes, so annoieng the plough,
turne
upward their arses with sorrow inough.
Who
breaketh up timely his fallow or lay, Breaking
up of lay in some
sets
forward his husbandrie many a way. countrie
This
trimlie well ended doth fowardlie bring,
not
onelie thy tillage, but all other thing.
Though
lay land ye breke up when Christmas is gon,
for
sowing of barlie or otes thereupon,
Yet
haste not to fallow til March be begun,
least
afterward wishing it had been undun.
Such
land as ye breake up for barlie to sowe,
two
earthes at the least er ye sow it bestowe.
If
land be therafter, set oting apart,
and
follow this lesson, to comfort thine hart.
Some
breaking up laie soweth otes to begin,
to
suck out the moisture so sower therein.
Yet
otoes with hir sucking a peeler is found,
both
ill to the maister and worse to some ground.
Land
arable driven or worne to the proofe,
and
craveth some rest for thy profits behoofe.
With
otes ye may sowe it, the sooner to grasse ,
more
soon to be pasture to bring it to passe.
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