24
Yoong plants soone die,
that growes too drie.
25
In countrie doth rest,
what season is best.
26
Good peason and léekes
makes pottage for [créekes].
27
Haue spoone meat inough,
for cart and the plough.
Good poore mans fare,
is poore mans care.
And not to boast,
of sod and roast.
28
Cause rooke and rauen
to séeke a new hauen.
Thus endeth Marches abstract, agréeing with Marches husbandrie.
¶ Other short remembrances.
[29]
Geld lambes now all,
straight as they fall.
Looke twise a day,
least lambes decay.
[30]
Where horse did harrow,
put stones in barrow,
And[11] laie them by,
in heapes on by.