6
Get into thy hopyard with plentie of poles,
amongst those same hillocks deuide them by [doles].
Three poles to a hillock[3] (I [pas] not how long)[4]
shall yeeld thee more profit, set deeplie and strong.
Felling of timber.
7
Sell barke to the tanner er timber yee fell,
cut lowe by the ground[5] or else doo ye not well.
In breaking[6] saue crooked, for mill and for ships,
and euer in hewing saue carpenters chips.[E285]
8
First see it well fenced er hewers begin,
then see it well [stadled],[7][E286] without and within;
Thus being preserued and husbandlie donne,
shall sooner raise profit, to thee or thy sonne.
Stadling of woods.
9
Leaue growing for [stadles] the likest and best,
though seller and buier dispatched the rest.
In bushes, in hedgerowe, in groue, and in wood,
this lesson obserued is needfull and good.
10
Saue elme, ash and crabtree, for cart and for plough,
saue step for a stile, of the crotch of the bough.
Saue hazel for forks, saue sallow for rake,
saue [huluer][8] and thorne, thereof flaile for to make.
Discharge thy woods.
11
Make riddance of carriage, er yeere go about,
for spoiling of plant that is newlie come out.
To carter (with oxen) this message I bring,
leaue oxen abrode[9] for [anoieng] the [spring].[E287]
12[10]
Allowance of fodder some countries doo yeeld,
as good for the cattel as haie in the feeld.
Some mowe vp their hedlonds[11] and plots among corne,
and driuen to leaue nothing, vnmowne, or vnshorne.