¶
9[5]
Now pluck vp thy flax, for the maidens to spin,
first see it dried, and [timelie] got in.
And mowe vp thy branke, and away with it drie,
and howse it vp close, out of danger to lie.
¶ Wormewood get against fleas and infection.
10
While wormwood[E346] hath seed, get a handful or twaine,
to saue against March to make flea to refraine:
Where chamber is sweeped, and wormwood is strowne,
no flea for his life dare abide to be knowne.
11[6]
What sauer is better (if physick be true),
for places infected, than wormwood and rue.
It is as a comfort for hart and the braine,
and therefore to haue it, it is not in vaine.
¶ Be sure of bread and drinke for haruest.
12
Get grist to the mill, to haue plentie in store,
least miller lack water, as many doo more.[E347]
The meale the more yeeldeth, if seruant be true,
and miller that [tolleth], take none but his due.
Thus endeth Julies husbandrie.
[1] curat. 1577.
[2] mow. 1614.