| JULIES
ABSTRACT
GO,
sirs and away, Cut
off, good wife,
to
ted and make hay. ripe
bean with a knife.
If
stormes draw nie,
then
cock apace crie. Ripe
hemp out cull,
from
karle to pull,
Let
hay still bide, Let
seede hempe growe,
till
well it be dride. till
more ye know.
(Hay
made) away carrie,
no
longer tarrie. Drie
flax get in,
for
spinners to spin.
Who
best way titheth, Now
mowe or pluck,
he
best way thriveth. thy
branke or buck.
Two
good haymakers, Some
wormewood save,
woorth
thwenth crakers. for
March to have.
Let
dallops about, Mark
Physick true,
be
mowen and had out. of
wormewood and rue.
See
hay doo looke greene, Get
grist to the mill,
see
feeld ye rake cleene. for
wanting at will.
Thry
fallow I pray thess,
least
thistles bewray thee.
JULIES
HUSBANDRIE
GO
muster thy servants, be captaine thyselfe, Hay
harvest
providing
them weapon and other like pelfe.
Get
bolltles and walletts, keepe field in the heat,
the
feare is as much, as the danger is great.
With
tossing and raking and setting on cox,
grasse
latelie in swathes is hay for an ox:
That
done, go and cart it and have it away,
the
battel is fought, ye have gotten the day.
Pay
justly thy tithes whatsoever thou bee, Pay
thy tithes
that
Gid may in blessing send foisen to thee.
Though
Vicar be bad, or the Parson as evill,
go
not for thy tithing thy selfe to the Devill,
Let
hay be well made, or avise else avouse,
for
moulding in goef, or fof firing the house.
Lay
cousest aside for the ox and the cow,
the
finest for sheepe and thy gelding alow.
Then
down with hedlonds, that growest about,
leave
never a dallop unmowne and had out.
Though
grasse be but thin about barlie and pease,
yet
picked up cleane ye shall find therin ease.
Thry
fallow betime, for destoieng of weede, Thry
fallowing
least
thistle and duck fall a blooming and seede,
Such
season may chance, it shall stand thee upon,
to
till it againe, er an Sommer be gon.
Not
rent off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife, Gathering
of garden beanes
for
hindering stalk of hir vegetive life.
So
gather the lowest, and leaving the top,
shall
teach thee a trick, for to double thy crop.
Wife,
pluck fro thy seed hemp the fiemble hemp clene, Gather
yellow hempe
this
looketh more yellow, the other more grene:
Use
ton for thy spinning, leave Mihel the tother,
for
shoo thred and halter, for rope and such other.
Now
pluck up thy flax, for the maidens to spin,
first
see it dried, and timelie got in.
And
mowe up thy branke, and away with it drie,
and
howse it up close, out of danger to lie.
While
wormwood hath seed, get a handful or twaine, Wormwood
get against
to
save against March to make flea to refraine: fleas
and infection.
Where
chamber is sweepted, and wormwood is strowne,
no
flea for his life can abide to be knowne.
What
saver 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 have it, itis not in vaine.
Get
grist to the miller, to have plentie in store,
least
miller lack water, as many doo more.
The
meale the moore yeeldeth, if servant be true,
and
miller that tolleth, take none but his due.
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