7
Let cart be well searched without and within,
well clouted and greased, er hay time begin.
Thy hay being carried, though carter had sworne,
carts bottome well boorded is sauing of corne.
8
Good husbands that laie to saue all things vpright,
for tumbrels and cart, haue a shed readie dight.
Where vnder the hog may in winter lie warme:
to stand so enclosed, as wind doo no harme.
A houell is set vpon crotches[1] and couered with poles and strawe.
9
So likewise a houell will serue for a roome,
to stack on the [peason], when haruest shall coome.
And serue thee in winter, more ouer than that,
to shut vp thy porklings thou mindest to fat.
10[2]
Some barnroome haue little, and yardroome as much,
yet corne in the field appertaineth to such:
Then houels and [rikes] they are forced to make,
abrode or at home for necessities sake.
11
Make sure of breadcorne (of all other graine),
lie drie and well looked to, for mouse and for raine.
Though [fitchis] and pease, and such other as they,
(for [pestring] too much) on a houell ye ley.
12
With [whinnes] or with furzes thy houell renew,
for turfe or for sedge, for to bake and to brew:
For charcole and sea cole, as also for [thacke],
for [tallwood] and [billet], as yeerlie ye lacke.
The husbandlie storhouse.
13
What husbandlie husbands, except they be fooles,
but handsome haue storehouse, for trinkets and tooles:
And all in good order, fast locked to ly,
what euer is needfull, to find by and by.
14
Thy houses and barnes would be looked vpon,
and all things amended er haruest come on.
Things thus set in order, in quiet and rest,
shall further thy haruest and pleasure thee best.