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JUNES
ABSRACT
WASH
sheep for to share, Let
wehat and rie,
that
sheep may go bare. in
house lie drie.
Though
fleese ye take, Buie
turfe and sedge,
no
patches make. or
else break hedge.
Share
lambes no whit, Good
store howse needful,
or
share not yit. well
ordered and speedful.
If
meadow be growne, Thy
barnes repaire,
let
meadow be mowne. make
flower faire.
Plough
early ye may, Such
shrubs as noie,
and
then carrie hay. in
sommer destroie.
Tis
good to be knowne, Swinge
brembles & brakes,
to
have all of thine owne. get
forkes and rakes.
Who
goeth a borrowing,
goeth
a sorrowing. Spare
hedlonds some,
till
harvest come.
See
cart in plight,
and
all things right. Cast
ditch and pond,
to
lay upon lond.
Make
drie over hed,
both
hovell and shed. A
LESSON OF HOPYARD
Of
hovell make stack, Where
hops will growe,
for
pease on his back. here
learne to knowe.
Hops
many will coome,
In
champoin some, in
a roode of roome.
wants
elbow rome.
Hop
plot once found,
Hops
hate the land, now
dig the ground.
with
gravell and sand.
Hops
favoureth malt,
The
rotten mold hops
thrift doth exalt:
for
hop is worth gold. Of
hops more reede,
as
time shall neede.
The
sunne southwest
for
the hopyard is best.
JUNES
HUSBANDRIE
WASH
sheep (for the better) where water doth run, Sheepe
sharing
and
let him go cleanly and drie in the sun.
Then
share him and spare not, at two daies an end,
The
sooner the better his corpse will amend.
Reward
not thy sheepe (when ye take off his cote) Beware
of evill sheepe shearers
with
twitchis and patches, as broad as a grote.
Let
not such ungentlenesse happen to thine,
least
flie with hir gentils do make it to pine.
Let
lambes go unclipped, til June be half worne, Sheare
lambes in Julie
the
better the fleeses will grow to be shorne.
The
Pie will discharge thee for pulling the rest:
the
lighter the sheepe is, then feedeth it best.
If
meadow be forward, be moving of somw; Mowing
time
but
mowe as the makers may well overcome;
Take
heede to the weather, the wind and the skie,
if
danger approacheth, then cock apace crie.
Plough
earlie till ten a clock, then to thy hay,
in
plowing and carting, so profit ye may.
By
little and little, thus dooing ye win:
that
plough shall not hinder when harvest comes in.
Provide
of thine owne to have all things at hand,
least
worke and the workman unoccupide stand.
Love
seldome to borowe that thinkest to save,
for
he that once lendeth twise looketh to have.
Let
cart be well searched without and within, Trim
wel thy carts.
well
clouted and greased, er hay time begin.
Thy
hay being carried, though carter had sworne,
carts
bottome well borded is saving of corne.
Good
husbands thay laie to save all things aright, A
hovell is set upon crotches
to
stack on the peason, when harvest shall coome. &
covered with poles and And serve thee in winter, more
over than that, straw.
to
shut up thy porklings thou mindest to fat.
Some
barnroome have little, and yardroome as much,
yet
corne in the field appertaineth to such:
Then
hovels and rikes they are forced to make,
abrode
or at home for necessities sake.
Make
sure of breadcorne (of all other graine),
let
drie and well looked to, for mouse and for raine.
Though
fitchis and pease, and such other as they,
(for
pestering too much) on a hovell ye ley.
With
whinnes or with furzes thy hovel renew,
for
turfe or for sedge, for to bake and to brew:
For
charcole and sea cole, as also for thacke,
for
tallwood and billet, as yeerlie ye lacke.
What
husbandlie husband, except they be fooles, The
husbandlie storhouse
but
handsome have storehouse, for trinkets and tooles,
And
all in good order, fast locked to ly,
what
ever is needfull, to find by and by.
Thy
house and barnes would be looked upon,
and
all things amended er harvest come on.
Things
thus set in order, in quiet and rest,
shall
further thy harvest and pleasure thee best.
The
bushes ans thorne with the shrubs that do noy,
in
woodsere or sommer cut downe to destroy:
But
where as decay to the tree ye will none,
for
danger in woodsere let hacking alone.
At
Midsommer, downe with the brembles and brakes, Mowe
down brakes and and and after, abrode with thy forks
and thy rakes: meadow
Set
mowers a mowing, where meadow is growne,
the
longer now standing the worse to be mowne.
Now
down with the grasse upon hedlonds about, Mowe
hedlonds at harvest
that
groweth in shadow, so ranke and so stout, or
after in the several fields.
But
grasse upon hedlond of barlie and pease,
when
harvest is ended, go mowe if ye please.
Such
muddie deepe ditches, and pits in the feeld,
that
all a drie sommer no water will yeeld,
By
fieing and casting that mud upon heapes,
commodities
many the husbandman reapes.
A
LESSON
WHERE
AND WHEN
TO
PLANT A GOOD HOPYARD.
Whome
fancie persuadeth, among other crops,
to
have for his spending sufficient of hops,
Must
willinglie follow, of choices to chuse,
such
lesson approoved, as skilful doo use.
Ground
gravellie, sandie, and mixed with clay. Naught
for hops.
is
naughtie for hops any maner of way;
Or
if it be mingled with rubbish and stone,
for
drines and barrenness, let it alone.
Choose
soil for the hop of the rottenest mould, Good
for hops
well
doonged and wrought, as a garden plot should:
Not
far from water (but not overflowne)
this
lesson well noted is meete to be knowne.
The
Sunne in the South, or esle southly and west,
is
joy to the hop, as a welcome gest;
But
wind in the north or else northly east,
to
hop is as ill as a fraie in a feast.
Meete
plot for a hopyard once found as i told Now
dig thy new hop ground
make
thereof account, as of jewell of gold.
Now
dig it and leave it, the Sunne for to burne,
and
afterward fence it to serve fot that turne.
The
hop for his profit I thus doo exalt, The
praise of hops
it
strengtheneth drinke, and it favoureth malt.
And
being well brewed, long kept it will last,
and
drawing abide, if ye draw not too fast.
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