Fiue hundred pointes of
good Husbandrie, as well for
the [Champion], or open countrie,
as also for the woodland, or [Seuerall],
mixed in euerie Month with Huswiferie,
ouer and besides the booke of Huswiferie,
corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented
to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons,
as a diet for the fermer, of the properties of
winds, planets, hops, herbes, bees, and approoued
remedies for sheepe & cattle, with many other
matters both profitable, and not vnpleasant for
the Reader. Also a table of husbandrie at the
beginning of this booke: and another
of huswiferie at the end: for the
better and easier finding of
any matter conteined
in the same.
Newly set foorth by Thomas Tusser
Gentleman, servant to the honorable
Lorde Paget of
Beaudesert.
Imprinted at London, by Henrie
Denham, dwelling in Paternoster
Row, at the signe
of the Starre.
1580.
A Lesson.
A lesson how to [confer] euery abstract with his month,& how to finde out huswiferie verses by the [Pilcrowe], and Champion from Woodland.
In euerie month, er[1] in aught be begun,[E1]
Reade ouer that month, what [auailes] to be dun.
So neither this [trauell][2] shall seeme to be lost:
Nor thou to repent of this trifeling cost.