41
Keepe one and keepe both, with as little a cost,
then all shall be saued and nothing be lost.
Both hauing togither what profit is caught,
good huswifes (I warrant ye) need not be taught.
¶
42[24]
For lamb, pig and calfe, and for other the like,
tithe so as thy cattle the Lord doo not strike.
Or if yee deale guilefully, parson will [dreue],
and so to your selfe a worse turne ye may geue.
43
Thy garden plot latelie well trenched and muckt,
would now be twifallowd, the mallowes out pluckt,[25]
Well clensed and purged of roote and of stone,
that [falt] therein afterward found may be none.
Wéeding of hopyard.
44
Remember thy hopyard, if season be drie,
now dig it and weed it, and so let it lie.
More [fennie] the laier the better his lust,
more apt to beare hops when it crumbles like dust.
Trimming up arbors.
45
To [arbor] begun, and [quick setted][26] about,
no [poling] nor [wadling][27] till [set] be far out.
For rotten and aged may stand for a shew,
but hold to their tackling there doe but a few.[28][E182]
Sowing of otes. Late sowing not good.
46
In Janiuere[29] husband that [poucheth] the grotes
will break vp his [laie], or be sowing of otes,
Otes sowen in Janiuere, laie[30] by the wheat,
in May by the hay for the cattle to eat.[31][E183]