8
To let out thy haruest, by [great][7] or by [day],
let this by experience leade thee a way.
By great will deceiue thee, with lingring it out,
by day will dispatch, and put all out of dout.[E357]
9
Grant haruest lord[8][E358] more by a penie or twoo,
to call on his [fellowes] the better to doo:
Giue [gloues] to thy reapers,[9] a larges[E359] to crie,
and dailie to loiterers haue a good [eie].
Good haruest points.
10
Reape wel, scatter not, gather cleane that is shorne,
binde fast, [shock] apace, haue an eie to thy corne.
Lode safe, carrie home, follow time being faire,
[goue] [iust] in the barne, it is out of [despaire].
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Tithe dulie and trulie, with hartie good will,
that God and his blessing may dwell with thee still:
Though Parson neglecteth his dutie for this,
thanke thou thy Lord God, and giue [erie] man his.
Parson looke to thy tithe.
12
Corne tithed (sir Parson) to gather go get,
and cause it on shocks to be by and by set:
Not leauing it scattering abrode on the ground,
nor long in the field, but away with it round.
Kéepe hog from cart whéele.
13
To cart gap and barne, set a guide to looke weele,
and [hoy] out (sir carter) the hog fro thy wheele:
Least greedie of feeding, in following cart,
it [noieth] or perisheth, [spight] of thy hart.
14
In champion countrie a pleasure they take,
to mowe vp their hawme, for to brew and to bake.
And also it stands them in steade of their thack,
which being well inned, they cannot well lack.