| From
April beginning, till Andrew be past, Dairie
matters
so
long with good huswif, hir dairie doth last.
Good
milchcow and pasture, good husbands provide,
the
resdue good huswives knowes best how to guide.
Ill
huswife unskilful to make her own chees, Ill
huswferie
through
trusting of others hath this for hir fees.
Her
milk pan and creame pot, so slabbered and sost,
that
butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.
Where
some of a cow doo raise yeerlie a pound,
with
such sellie huswives no penie is found.
Then
dairie maid (Cisley) hir fault being known,
away
apace trudgeth, with more than hir own.
Then
neighbour, for Gods sake, if any you see,
good
servant for dairie house, waine her to mee.
Such
maister such man, and such mistress such maid,
such
husband and huswife, such houses araid,
A
LESSON FOR
DAIRY
MAID CISLEY
OF
TEN TOPPINGS GESTS
As
wife that will
So Cisse that serves
good husband plese,
must marke this note
Must
shun with skill What
fault deserves
such gests as these.
a brushed cote.
Gehezie,
Lots wife, and Argusses eies,
Ten toppings gests unsent for
Tom
piper, poore Cobler, and Lazerus thies,
Rough
Esau, with Mawdlin, and Gentils that scall,
With
Bishop that burneth, thus knowe ye them all.
These
toppingly gests be in number but ten,
As
welcome in dairie as Beares among men.
Which
being descried, take heede of you shall,
For
danger of after claps, after that fall.
Gehezie
his sickness was whiteish and drie,
White not drie
such
cheeses, good Cisley, ye floated too nie.
Lease
Lot with her pliier (good Cisley) alone,
Too salt
much
saltnes in whitemeat is ill for the stone.
If
cheeses in the dairie have Argusses eies
Full of eies
tell
Cicily the fault in hir huswiferie lies.
Tom
Piper hath hoven and puffed up cheekes
Hoven
if
cheese be so hoven, make Cissie to seeke creekes.
Poore
Cobler he tugged his leatherlie trash,
Tough
if
cheese abide tugging, tug Cisley a crash.
If
Lazer so lothsome in cheese be espied
Full of spots
let
baies amend Cisley, or shift hir aside.
Rough
Esau was hearie from top to the fut,
Full of heares.
if
cheese so appeareth, call Cisley a slut.
As
Mawdlin wept, so would Cisley be drest,
Full of Whey
for
whey in hir cheese, not hald enough prest.
If
gentils be scrauling, call magget the pt,
Full of gentils
if
cheeses have gentils, at Cissie by and by.
Blesse
Cissie (good mistres) that Bishop doth ban,
Burnt to the pan.
for
burning the milk of hir cheese to the pan.
It
thou (so oft beaten) I
will no more threaten,
amendest by this:
I promise thee Cis.
Thus
dairie maid Cisley, rehersed ye see,
what
faults with ill huswife, in dairie house bee.
of
market abhorred, to household a griefe,
to
maister and mistris, as ill as a thiefe.
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