Champion.
5
The housing of cattel while winter doth hold,
is good for all such as are feeble and old:
It saueth much compas, and many a sleepe,
and spareth the pasture for walke of thy sheepe.[3]
Champion.
6
For [charges] so little much quiet is won,
if strongly and handsomly al thing be don:
But vse to [vntackle] them once in a day,
to rub and to [lick] them, to drink and to play.
Ordering of cattel.
7
Get trustie to tend them, not lubberlie squire,
that all the day long hath his nose at the fire.[E131]
Nor trust vnto children poore cattel to feede,
but such as be able to helpe at a neede.
8
Serue riestraw out first, then wheatstraw and pease,
then otestraw and barlie, then hay if ye please:
But serue them with hay while the straw stouer last,
then loue they no straw, they had rather to fast.
Forkes and yokes.
9
Yokes, forks, and such other, let bailie spie out,
and gather the same as he walketh about.
And after at leasure let this be his [hier],
to [beath][E132] them and [trim] them at home by the fier.
Going of cattel in marshes.