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1 Wash shéep for to share, that shéepe may go bare. 2 Though fléese ye take, no patches make. 3 Share lambes no whit, or share not yit. 4 If meadow be growne, let meadow be mowne. 5 Plough early ye may, and then carrie hay. 6 Tis good to be knowne, to haue all of thine owne. Who goeth a borrowing, goeth a sorrowing.[E328] 7 Sée cart in plight, and all things right. 8 Make drie ouer hed, both houell and shed. 9 Of houell make stack, for pease on his back. 10[1] In champion some, wants elbow rome. 11 Let wheat and rie, in house lie drie. 12 Buie turfe and sedge, or else breake hedge. 13 Good store howse néedfull well ordred spéedfull. 14 Thy barnes repaire, make flower[2] faire. 15 Such shrubs as noie, in sommer destroie. 16 Swinge brembles & brakes,[E329] get forkes and rakes. 17 Spare hedlonds[3] some, till haruest come. 18 Cast ditch and pond, to lay vpon lond.

19 Where hops will growe, here learne to knowe. Hops many will coome, in a roode of roome. 20 Hops hate the land, with grauell and sand. 21 The rotten mold for hop is worth gold. 22 The sunne southwest for hopyard is best. 23 Hop plot once found, now dig the ground. 24 Hops fauoreth malt, hops thrift doth exalt: Of hops more réede, as time shall néede.