[57.]
¶ Augusts husbandrie.
Chap. 46.
Dry August and warme,
Doth haruest no harme.
Forgotten month past
Doe now at the last.
Thry fallowing.
1
Thry fallow once ended, go strike by and by,
both wheat land and barlie, and so let it ly.
And as ye haue leisure, go compas the same,
when vp ye doo lay it, more fruitfull to [frame].
Mowing of brakes.
2
Get downe with thy brakes, er an showers doo come,
that cattle the better may pasture haue some.
In June and in August, as well doth appeere,
is best to mowe brakes, of all times in the yeere.
Paring of saffron.