146. ¶ What warkes a wyfe shulde do in generall.
First, at rising, bless thyself.
[Fol. 61.]
Sweep the house,
milk the cows, dress the children.
Send corn to the mill, and measure it before it goes.
Make butter and cheese.
Gather the eggs.
[Fol. 61b.]
Put in order the garden.
Better are March hards than April flax.
Make sheets, towels, and shirts.
[Fol. 62.]
Dry the flax.
Sometimes there is a great deal to do.
Leave that till last which will best wait.
[Fol. 62b.]
With some of the wool make clothes.
Winnow corn, brew, wash, make hay, etc.
Sell the butter, cheese, hens, geese, and corn.
Keep accounts.
[Fol. 63.]
I will not explain all points of deceit.
Else I should act like the Knight de la Tour,
who wrote a book against vice,
but really taught vice.
[Fol. 63b.]