2
I trust both this
performed is,
and how that here
it shall appere,
with iudgement right,
to thy delight,
is brought to passe:
That such as wiue,
and faine would thriue,
be plainly taught
how good from naught
may [trim] be tride,
and [liuely spide],
as in a glasse.
3
What should I win,
by writing in
my losses past,
that ran as fast
as running streame,
from [reame] to reame
that flowes so swift?
For that I could
not get for [gould],
to teach me how,
as this doth yow,
through daily gaine,
the waie so plaine
to come by thrift.
4
What is a grote
or twaine to note,
once in the life
for man or wife,
to saue a pound,
in house or ground,
ech other weeke?[E16]
What more for health,
what more for wealth,
what needeth lesse,
run Iack, helpe Besse,
to staie amis,
not hauing this,
far off to seeke?
5
I do not craue
mo thankes to haue,
than giuen to me
alreadie be,
but this is all
to such as shall
peruse this booke:
That for my sake,
they gently take,
where ere they finde
against their minde,
when he or she
shall minded be
therein to looke.
6
And grant me now,
thou reader thow,
of termes to vse,
such choise to chuse,
as may delight
the countrie [wight],
and knowledge bring:
For such doe praise
the countrie phraise,
the countrie acts,
the countrie facts,
the countrie toies,
before the ioies
of anie thing.
7
Nor looke thou here
that euerie [shere][E17]
of euerie verse
I thus reherse
may profit take
or [vantage] make
by lessons such:
For here we see
things seuerall bee,
and there no [dike],
but champion like,
and sandie soile,
and claiey toile,
doe suffer[1] much.
8
This[2] being waid,
be not afraid
to [buie] to proue,
to reade with loue,
to followe some,
and so to come
by practise true:
My paine is past,
thou warning hast,
th' experience mine,
the vantage thine,
may giue thee choice
to crie or reioice:
and thus [adue].
Finis T. Tusser.
[1] differ. 1573; suffer. 1577.
[2] Thus. 1577.