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Though neuer so much a good huswife doth care,
that such as doe labour haue husbandlie fare.
Yet feed them and cram them til purse doe lack [chinke],
no spoone meat, no [bellifull], labourers thinke.
Destroie pie, rooks, and rauens nest, etc.
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Kill crowe, pie and [cadow], rooke, [buzard] and rauen,
or else go desire them to seeke a new hauen.
In scaling the yoongest, to pluck off his [beck],
beware how ye climber, for breaking your neck.
Thus endeth Marches husbandrie.
[1] "The Retailer now sells them for 2¾d. the Quart."—T.R. 1710.
[2] In Lent, dog's meat was scarce, and "a mort Lamb now and then was very apt to whet their appetite for Mutton."—T.R.
[3] goeler. 1577. goodlier. 1614. "The goeler is the yellower, which are the best setts, old roots being red."—T.R.
[4] "Well taken off from the old Roots."—T.R.
[5] "A common Rubber or Whetstone."—T.R.