A medicen for faint cattell.
19
Take vergis and heate it, a pint for a cow,
bay salt a hand full,[11] to rub tong ye wot how.
That done, with the salt, let hir drinke off the rest:
this manie times raiseth the feeble vp best.
To fasten loose téeth in a bullock.
20
Poore bullock with browsing and naughtily fed,
scarce feedeth, hir teeth be so loose in hir hed:
Then [slise] ye the taile where ye feele it so soft,
with soote and with garlike bound to it aloft.[12]
Ewes vpon eaning.
21
By brembles and bushes, in pasture too full,
poore sheepe be in danger and loseth their [wull].[13]
Now therefore thine ewe, vpon [lamming] so neere,
desireth in pasture that all may be cleere.
22
Leaue grubbing or pulling of bushes (my sonne)
till timely thy fences require to be donne.
Then take of the best, for to furnish thy turne,
and home with the rest, for the fier to burne.
Stubbing of gréenes.
23
In euerie greene,[14] if the fence be not thine,
now stub vp the bushes, the grasse to be fine.
Least neighbour doo dailie so hack[15] them beliue,[E175]
that neither thy bushes nor pasture can thriue.
24
In ridding[16] of pasture with turfes that lie by,[17]
fill euerie hole vp, as close as a [dy].
The labour is little, the profit is gay,
what euer the loitering labourers say.