Hop tools.
9
Get [crowe] made of iron, deepe hole for to make,
with [crosse] [ouerthwart] it, as sharpe as a stake.
A [hone][5] and a parer, like sole of a boote,[6]
to pare away grasse and to raise vp the roote.
10
In March is good grafting, the skilfull doo knowe,
so long as the wind in the East doo not blowe.
From Moone being changed til past be the prime,[7]
for grafting and cropping is verie good time.
11
Things graffed or planted,[8] the greatest and least,
defend against tempest, the bird[9] and the beast.
Defended shall prosper, the tother is lost,
the thing with the labour, the time and the cost.
Sowing of barlie.
12
Sowe barlie in March, in April and Maie,
the latter[10] in sand, and the sooner in claie.[11]
What worser for barlie than wetnes and cold?
what better to skilfull than time to be bold?[E276]
13[12]
Who soweth his barlie too soone or in raine,
of [otes][13] and of thistles shall after complaine.
I speake not of Maie weed,[E277] [cockle][E278] and such,
that noieth the barlie, so often and much.
14
Let barlie be harrowed, finelie as dust,
then workmanly trench it and fence it ye must.
This season well plied, set sowing an end,
and praise and praie God a good haruest to send.
Rowling of barlie.