| MARCHES
ABSTRACT
White
peason sowe Good
bearing hop
scare
hungry crow. climes
up to the top.
Keep
hopo from sunne,
Spare
meadow for hay, and
hop is undunne.
spare
marshes at May.
Hop
tooles procure
Keepe
sheepe from dog, that
may endure .
keepe
lambes from hog. Iron
crowe like a stake,
If
foxes mowse them, deepe
hole to make.
then
watch or howset them. A
scaper to pare
the
earth about bare.
March
drie or wet, A
hone to raise roote,
hop
grounds go set. like
sole of a boote.
Yoong
rootes well drest, Sharpe
knife to cut
proove
ever best. superfluous
gut.
Grant
hop great hill,
to
growe it will. Who
graffing looves,
From
hop long gut now
graffing prooves.
away
go cut. Of
everie suite,
graffe
dainty fruite.
Here
learne the way Graffe
good fruite all,
hop
rootes to lay. or
graffe none at all.
Graffe
soone may be lost,
Rootes
best to proove, both
graffing and cost.
thus
set I loove. Learne
here take heed
what
counsell doth beed.
Leave
space and roome,
to
hillock to coome. Sowe
barlie that can,
too
soone ye shall ban.
Of
hedge and willow Let
horse keep his owne,
hop
makes his pillow. till
barlie be sowne.
Sowe
even thy land, For
sommer sowe now,
with
plentifull hand. for
winter see how.
Sowe
over and under,
in
claie is no wonder. Learne
time to knowe,
to
set or sowe.
By
sowing in wet,
is
little to get. Yoong
plants soone die,
that
growes too drie.
Straight
folow the plough,
and
harrow inough. In
countrie doth rest,
With
slinge go throwe, what
season is best.
to
scare away crowe.
Good
peaseon and leekes
Rowle
after a deaw, make
pottage for creekes.
when
barlie doth sheaw.
More
handsom to make it, Have
spoon meat inough,
to
mowe and to rake it. for
cart and the plough.
Good
poore mans fare,
Learne
here ye may is
poore mans care.
best
harrowing way. And
not to boast,
of
sod and roast.
Now
rowle thy wheat,
where
clods be too great. Cause
rooke and raven
to
seeke a new haven.
Make
readie a plot,
for
seeds for the pot. Geld
lambes now all.
straight
as they fall.
Best
searching minds Looke
twise a day,
the
best waie finds. least
lambes decay.
For
garden best SEEDES
AND HERBS
is
south south west. FOR
THE KITCHEN
Good
tilthe brings seedes, Avens
evill
tilture, weedes. Betanie
Bleets
or beets, white or yellow
Where
horse did harrow, Bloodwoort
put
stones in barrow, Buglas
and
laie them by Burnet
in
heapes on hy. Burrage
Cabage
remove in June
Let
oxe once fat Clarie
lose
nothing of that. Coleworts
Now
hunt with dog, Cresses
unyoke
hog. Endive
Fenell
With
Doves good luck, French
Malows
reare
goose and duck. French
Saffron set in August
To
spare aright Langdebiefe
spare
March his flight. Leeks
removed in June
Lettis
removed in May
Save
chitkins poore buttocks Longwort
from
pye, crowe and puttocks. Liverwort
Marigolds
often cut
Some
love now best Mercurie
yong
rabbets nest. Mints
of all times
Nep
Now
knaves will steale Onions
from December to March
pig,
lamb, and veale. Orach
or arach, redde or white
Patience
Here
learne to Knowe Perceley
what
seeds to sowe. Peneriall
Primerose
And
such to plant Poret
whose
seeds do want. Sorell
Spinage
for the sommer
Rosemay
in the sprintime Sea
holie
to
grow south or west Sperage,
letbgrowe two years and then remove
Sage
red and white Skirrets,
set these plants in March
English
Saffron set in August Suckrie
Summer
saverie Tarragon,
set in slippes in march
Sorrell
Violets
of all colours
Spinage
Suckerie
These buie with the penie
Siethes
Or looke not for anie
Tanzie
Violets
of all sorts Capers
Winter
saverie Lemmans
Olives
HERBES
AND ROOTES FOR Orengis
SALLETS
AND SAUCE Rise
Sampire
Alexanders,
at all times
Artichoke
HERBES
AND ROOTES TO
Blessed
thistles, or Carduus benedictus BOILE OR
TO BUTTER
Cucumbers
in April and May
Cresies,
sowe with lettice in the spring Beanes,
set in winter
Endive
Cabbegis,
sowe in March
Mustard
seede, Carrets
sowe
in the spring and Mihelmas Citrons, sowe
in May
Musk
million, in April & May Goordes
in May
Mints
Navewes
sowe in June
Purslane
Pompions
in May
Radish
ans after remove them Persneps
in winter
Rampions
Rokat,
in April HERBES
BRANCHES AND FLOWERS
Sage
FOR
WINDOW AND POTS
Runcivall
pease set in winter
Rapes
sowe in June Baies,
sowe or set in plants in Januarie
Turneps
in March and April Batchelers
buttons
Botles,
blew, red and tawnie
Colembines
STROWING
HERBES Campions
OF
ALL SORTS Cousleps
Daffodondillies
Bassel,
fine and busht, sowe in May Eglantine,
or sweet brier
Baulme,
set in March Fetherfew
Camamel
Flower
armor sowe in May
Costmarie
Flower
de luce
Cousleps
and paggles Flower
gentle, white and red
Daisies
of all sorts Flower
nice
Sweete
fennell Gileflowers,
red, white & carnations
Garmandar
set
in spring and Harvest in
Isop,
set in February pots,
pailes, or tubs
Lavendar
or
for sommor in beds
Lavendar
spike Holiokes,
red and white and carnations
Lavendar
cotten Indian
eie, sowe in May or set in slips
Majorom
knotted, sowe or set at the in
March
spring
Lavendar
of all sorts
Mawdelin
Larkes
foot
Penal
riall Laus
tibi
Roses
of all sorts, in Januarie Lillium
cum valium
and
September Lillies,
red and white, sowe or set
Red
mints in
March and September
Sage
Marigolds
double
Tanzie
Nigella
Romana
Violets
Pauncies
or hartesease
Winter
saverie Paggles,
green and yelow
Pinkes
of all sorts NECESSARIE
HERBES TO
Queenes
gilleflowers GROWE
IN THE GARDEN
Rosemarie
FOR
PHYSICK
Roses
of all sorts NOT
REHERSED BEFORE
Snag
dragons
Sops
in wine Annis
Sweete
Williams Archangel
Sweete
Johns Betanie
Star
of Bethelem Charviel
Star
of Jerusalem Cinqfile
Stocke
gillieflowers of all sorts Cummin
Tuft
gilleflowers Dragons
Velvet
flowers Detanie
or garden ginger
or
french Marigolds Gromel
seed, for the stone
Violets,
yelloe or white Hartsong
Wall
gilleflowers of all sorts Horehound
Lovage
for the stone
HERBES
TO STILL IN SOMMER Licoras
Mandrake
Blessed
thistle Mogwort
Betanie
Pionees
Dill
Poppie
Endive
Rew
Eiebright
Rubarb
Fennell
Smalach,
for swellings
Fumetorie
Saxefrage,
for the stone
Isop
Savin,
for the bots
Mints
Stitchwort
Plantine
Valerian
Roses
red and damaske Woodbine
Respis
Saxefrage
Strawberis
Sorell
Suckerie
Woodrofe
for swete
waters
and cakes
MARCHES
HUSBANDIRE
WHITE
peason, both good for the pot and the purse,
by
sowing too timelie, proove often the wurse.
Bicause
they be tender and hateth the cold,
proove
March er ye sowe them, for being too bold.
Spare
meadow at Gregorie, marshes at Pask, Spare
eating of meadow
for
feare of die Sommer, no longer time ask.
Then
hedge them and ditch them, bestow theron pence,
corne,
meadow and pasture, aske alway good fence.
Of
mastives and mungrels, that manie we see, In
Lent have an ey to sheep biters
a
number of thousands too manie there bee.
Watch
therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and look,
for
dogs will have vittels, by hooke or by crooke.
In
March at the furdest, drie season or wet, Setting
of hops
hop
rootes so well chosen, let skilfull go set.
The
goeler and yonger the better I love;
well
gutted and pared, the better they proove.
Some
laieth them croswise, along in the ground,
as
high as the knee they doo cover up round.
Some
prick up a stick in the mids of the same,
that
little round hillock the better to frame.
Some
maketh a hollownes, halfe a foot deepe,
with
fower sets in it, set slant wise a steep:
One
foot from another, in order ti lie,
and
thereon a hillock as round as a pie.
Five
foot from another ech hillock would stand,
as
straight as a leveled line with the hand.
Let
everie hillock be fower foot wide,
the
better to come to on everie side.
By
willowes that groweth thy hopyard without,
and
also by hedges thy meadows about.
Good
hop hath a pleasure to climb and to spred,
if
Sunne may have passage to comfort hir hed.
Get
crowe made of iron, deepe hole for to make, Hop
tools
with
cross athwort it, as sharpe as a stake.
A
hone and a parer, like sole of a boote,
to
pare away grasse, and to raise up the roote.
In
March is good graffing, the skilful doo knowe, Graffing
so
long as the wind in the east doo not blowe.
From
Moone being changing til past be the prime,
for
graffing and cropping is verie good time.
Things
graffed or planted, the greatest and least,
defend
against tempest, the bird and the beast.
Defended
shall prosper, the tother is lost,
the
thing with the labour, the time and the cost.
Sowe
barlie in march, in April and Maie, Sowing
of barlie
the
latter is sand, and the sooner in claie.
What
worser for barlie than wetnes and cold?
what
better to skilful than time to be bold.
Who
soweth his barlie too soon or in raine,
ot
otes and of thistles shal after complaine.
I
speake not of Maie weed, cockle and such,
that
noieth the barlie, so often and much.
Let
barlie be harrowed, finelie as dust,
then
workmanly trench it and fence it ye must.
This
season well plied, set sowing an end,
and
praise and praise God a good harvest to send.
Some
rowleth their barlie straight after a raine, Rowling
of barlie
when
first it appeareth to leavell it plaine.
The
barlie so used, the better doth growe,
and
hansome ye make it at hatvest to mowe.
Otes,
barlie and pease, harrow after you sowe,
for
riw harrow first, as alreadie ye knowe.
Leave
wheat little clod for to cover the head,
that
after a frost, it may out and go spread.
If
clod in thy wheat will not break with the frost,
if
now ye do rowle it, it quiteth the cost.
But
see when ye rowle it the weather be drie,
or
else it were better unrowled to lie.
In
March and in April from morning to night, Gardening
in
sowing and setting, good huswives delight:
To
have in a garden, or other like plot,
to
tuen up their house and to furnish their pot.
The
nature of flowers dame Physick doth shew,
she
teacheth them all to be known to a few.
To
set or to sowe, or else sowen to remove,
how
that should be practised, learne if ye love.
Land
falling or lieng full South or southwest, To
know good land
for
profit by tillage is lightly the best.
So
garden with orchard and hopyard I finde,
that
what the like benefit, growe out of kind.
If
field to beare corne a good tillage doth crave,
what
think ye of garden, what garden would have?
In
field without cost be assured of weedes,
in
garden be suer thy looseth thy seedes.
At
spring (for the sommor) sowe garden ye shall,
at
harvest (for winter) or sowe not at all.
Oft
digging, remooving, and weeding (ye see),
makes
herbe the more holesome and greater to bee.
Time
faire, to sowe or to gather be bold,
but
set or remoove when the weather is cold.
Cut
all thing or gather, the Moone in the wanr,
but
sowe in encreasing, or give it his bane.
Now
set do ask watering with pot or with dish,
new
sowne doo not so, if ye do as I wish.
Through
cunning with dible, rake, mattock, and spade,
by
line and by leavell, trim garden is made.
Who
soweth too lateward, hath seldome good seed,
who
soweth too soone, little better shall speed.
Apt
time and the season so divers to hit,
let
aier and laier helpe pactise and wit.
Now
leekes are in season, for pottage full good.
and
spareth the milchcow and purgeth the blood.
These
having, with peason for pottage in Lent,
thou
spareth both otemell and bread to be spent.
Though
never so much a goo huswife doth care,
that
such as doe labour have husbandlie fare.
Yet
feed them and cram them til purse doth lack chinke,
no
spoone meat, no bellifull, labourers thinke.
Kill
crow, pie and cadow, rooke, buzard and raven, Destroie
pie, rooks, and or esle go desire them to seek a new
haven, ravens
nest, etc.
In
scaling the yoongest, to pluck off his beck,
beware
how ye climber, forbreaking your neck.
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