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In pruning and trimming all maner of trees,
reserue to ech cattel their properly fees.
If snowe doo continue, sheepe hardly that fare
craue Mistle and Iuie for them for to spare.
Lopping of pollengers.
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Now lop for thy fewell old [pollenger] growen,
that hinder the corne or the grasse to be mowen.
In lopping and felling, saue edder and stake,[E172]
thine hedges as needeth to mend or to make.
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In lopping,[8] old Jocham, for feare of mishap,
one bough stay vnlopped, to cherish the sap:
The second yeere after then boldly ye may,
for [driping] his fellowes, that bough cut away.
The propertie of soft wood.
15
Lop popler and sallow, elme, maple, and [prie],
well saued from cattle, till Sommer to lie.
So far as in lopping, their tops ye doo fling,
so far without planting yoong copie will spring.[E173]
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Such fewell as standing a late ye haue bought,
now fell it, and make it, and doo as ye ought.
Giue charge to the hewers (that many things mars),
to hew out for crotches, for poles, and for spars.
Hoppoles and crotches.
17
If hopyard or orchard ye mind for to haue,
for hoppoles and crotches in lopping go saue.
Which husbandlie spared may serue at a push,
and stop by so hauing two gaps with a bush.
18
From Christmas, till May be well entered in,
some cattle waxe faint, and looke poorely and thin.
And cheefly when [prime][E174] grasse[10] at first doth appeere,
then most is the danger of all the whole yeere.