15
To teach and vnteach in a schoole is vnmeete,
to doe and vndoe to the purse is vnsweete.
Then orchard or hopyard, so trimmed with cost,
should not through follie be spoiled and lost.
Letting horse blood.
16
Er Christmas be passed let horse be let blood,
for many a purpose it doth them much good.
The daie of S. Stephen old fathers did vse:
if that doe [mislike] thee some other daie chuse.
Bréeding of the bots.
17
Looke wel to thy horses in stable thou must,
that haie be not foistie, nor chaffe ful of dust:
Nor stone in their prouender, feather, nor clots,
nor fed with greene peason, for breeding of bots.
Hog and hennes meate.
18
Some horsekeeper [lasheth] out prouender so,
some [Gillian spendal] so often doth go.
For hogs meat and hens meat, for that and for this,
that corne loft is empted er chapman hath his.
19[5]
Some countries are pinched of medow for hay,
yet ease it with fitchis as well as they may.
Which [inned] and threshed and husbandlie [dight],
keepes laboring cattle in verie good plight.
20
In threshing out fitchis one point I will shew,
first thresh out for seede of the fitchis a few:
Thresh few fro thy plowhorse, thresh cleane for the cow,
this order in Norfolke good husbands alow.
¶ Strawberies.