52
Hop poles preserue,
againe to serue.
Hop poles by and by,
long safe vp to dry.
Least poles wax [scant],
new poles go plant.[19]
53
The hop kell dride,
will best abide.
Hops dried in loft,
aske [tendance] oft.
And shed their séedes,
much more than néedes.[20]
54
Hops dride small cost,
ill kept halfe lost.
Hops quickly[21] be [spilt],
take héede if thou wilt.
55
Some come, some go,
This life is so.
Thus endeth Augusts abstract, agréeing with Augusts husbandrie.
* * * Stanza 47 is st. 49 in Septembers Abstract in 1577; st. 48 is 50, second couplet reads—
But not in a deawe,
nor pidling with feawe. 1577.
[1] Sts. 5, 6 are wanting in 1577.
[2] droom. 1577.
[3] Get reapers by day. 1577.