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1 Put lambe from eawe, to milke a feawe. 2 Be not too bold, to milke and to fold. 3 Fiue eawes alow, to euerie cow. 4 Shéepe wrigling taile hath mads without faile. 5 Beat hard in the réede where house hath néede. 6 Leaue cropping from May to Mihelmas day. Let Iuie be killed, else trée will be spilled. 7 Now threshers warne to rid the barne. 8 Be suer of hay till thend of May. 9 Let shéepe fill flanke, where corne is too ranke. In woodland leuer,[1] in champion neuer. 10 To wéeding away, as soone as yée may. 11 For corne here réede,[E302] what naughtie wéede. 12 Who wéeding slacketh, good husbandrie lacketh. 13 Sowe buck or branke, that smels so ranke. 14 Thy branke go and sowe, where barlie did growe. The next crop wheat is husbandrie neat. 15 Sowe pescods some, for haruest to come. 16 Sowe hemp and flacks, that spinning lacks. 17 Teach hop to clime, for now it is time. 18 Through fowles & wéedes poore hop ill spéedes. Cut off or crop superfluous hop: The titters or tine makes hop to pine.[2] 19 Some raketh their wheat, with rake that is great. So titters and tine be gotten out fine. 20 Now[3] sets doe craue some wéeding to haue. 21 Now draine as ye like both fen and dike. 22 Watch bées in May, for swarming away. Both now and in June, marke maister bées tune. 23 Twifallow thy land, least plough else stand. 24 No longer tarrie, out compas to carrie. 25 Where néede doth pray it, there sée ye lay it. 26 Set Jack and Jone to gather vp stone. 27 To grasse with thy calues, take nothing to halues.[E303] 28 Be suer thy neat haue water and meat. 29 By tainting of ground, destruction is found. 30 Now carrege get home fewell to fet. Tell fagot and billet for filching gillet.[E304] 31 In sommer for firing let citie be buying. Marke colliers packing least coles be lacking. (Sée opened sack) for two in a pack. 32 Let nodding patch go sléepe a snatch. 33 Wife as[4] you will, now plie your still. Fine bazell[5] sowe, in a pot to growe. Fine séedes sowe now, before ye sawe how. 35 Kéepe ox from cow, for causes ynow.

[36] From bull cow fast till Crowchmas[6] be past. From heifer bul hid thée till Lammas[7] doth bid thée.