The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules / Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

III.

But if thou shouldst sow late, this well may be

In all thy Slacknesse an excuse for thee:

When, in the Oakes greene arms the Cuckoe sings,

And first delights Men in the louely springs;

If much raine fall, ’tis fit then to defer

Thy sowing worke. But how much raine to beare,

And [285]let no labour, to that Much give eare:

Past intermission let Ioue steepe the grasse

Three daies together, so he do not passe