15
The hawme is the strawe of the wheat or the rie,
which once being reaped, they mowe [by and bie]:
For feare of destroieng with cattle or raine,
the sooner ye lode it, more profit ye gaine.
Mowing of barlie.
16
The mowing of barlie, if barlie doo stand,
is cheapest and best, for to rid out of hand:[E360]
Some mowe it and rake it, and sets it on [cocks],
some mowe it and binds it, and sets it on shocks.
Binding of barlie.
17
Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find,
leaue standing by [dallops],[E361] till time ye doo bind:
Then early in morning (while deaw is thereon),
to making of bands till the deaw be all gon.
Spreading of barlie bands.
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18
One spreadeth those bands, so in order to ly,
as barlie (in [swatches]) may fill it thereby:
Which gathered vp, with the rake and the hand,
the follower after them bindeth in band.
Tithe of rakings.
19
Where barlie is raked (if dealing be true),
the tenth of such raking to Parson is due:
Where scatring of barlie is seene to be much,
there custome nor conscience tithing should [gruch].[11]