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1 White peason sowe, scare hungry crow. 2 Spare meadow for hay, spare marshes at May. 3[1] Kéepe shéepe from dog, kéepe lambes from hog. If foxes mowse[2] them, then watch or howse them. 4 March drie or wet, hop ground go set. Yoong rootes well drest prooue euer[3] best. Grant hop great hill to growe at will. From hop long gut away go cut. 5 Here learne the way hop rootes to lay. 6 Rootes best to prooue, thus set I looue. 7 Leaue space and roome, to hillock to coome. 8 Of hedge and willow hop makes his[4] pillow. Good bearing hop climes vp to the top. Kéepe hop from sunne, and hop is vndunne. 9 Hop tooles procure that may endure. Iron crowe like a stake, déepe hole to make. A scraper to pare the earth about bare. A hone to raise roote, like sole of a boote. Sharpe knife to cut superfluous gut. 10 Who graffing looues, now graffing prooues. Of euerie suite, graffe daintie fruite. Graffe good fruite all, or graffe not at all. 11 Graffe soone may be lost, both grafting and cost. Learne here[5] take héed what counsell doth béed.[6] 12 Sowe barlie that can, too soone ye shall ban. Let horse kéepe his owne, till barlie be sowne. Sowe euen thy land, with plentifull hand. Sowe ouer and vnder, in claie is no woonder. 13[7] By sowing in wet, is little to get. 14 Straight folow the plough, and harrow inough. With sling go throwe,[8] to scare away crowe. 15 Rowle after a deaw, when barlie doth sheaw. More handsom to make it, to mowe and to rake it. 16 Learne here ye may best harrowing way. 17[9] Now rowle thy wheat, where clods be too great. 18 Make readie a plot, for séeds for the pot. 19 Best searching minds the best waie finds. 20 For garden best is south southwest. 21 Good tilth brings séedes, euill tilture, wéedes. 22 For sommer sowe now, for winter sée how. 23 Learne time to knowe, to set or sowe.[10] 24 Yoong plants soone die, that growes too drie. 25 In countrie doth rest, what season is best. 26 Good peason and léekes makes pottage for créekes. 27 Haue spoone meat inough, for cart and the plough. Good poore mans fare, is poore mans care. And not to boast, of sod and roast. 28 Cause rooke and rauen to séeke a new hauen.

[29] Geld lambes now all, straight as they fall. Looke twise a day, least lambes decay. [30] Where horse did harrow, put stones in barrow, And[11] laie them by, in heapes on by. [31] Let oxe once fat lose nothing of that. Now hunt with dog, vnyoked hog. [32] With Doues good luck, reare[12] goose and duck. To spare aright spare March his flight.

Saue chikins poore buttocks from pye, crowe, & puttocks. Some loue now best yong rabbets nest. Now knaues will steale pig, lamb, and veale. Here learne to knowe what seedes to sowe. And such to plant whose seedes do want.