Hauking.
44
Be mindfull abrode of [Mihelmas][20] spring,
for thereon dependeth a husbandlie thing:
Though some haue a pleasure, with hauke vpon hand,
good husbands get treasure, to purchase their land.
Winter milch cow.
45
Thy market dispatched, turne home againe round,
least [gaping] for penie, thou loosest[21] a pound:
Prouide for thy wife, or else looke to be [shent],
good milch cow for winter, another for Lent.
Old ewes.
46
In traueling homeward, buie fortie good crones,
and fat vp the bodies of those seelie bones.
Leaue milking and drie vp old [mulley] thy cow,
the [crooked] and aged, to fatting put now.
Buieng or selling of butter and chéese.
47[22]
At [Bartilmewtide], or at Sturbridge faire,[E372]
buie that [as] is needfull, thy house to repaire:
Then sell to thy profit, both butter and cheese,
who buieth it sooner, the more he shall leese.
Hops gathering.
48
If hops doo looke brownish, then are ye too slowe,
if longer ye suffer those hops for to growe.
Now sooner ye gather, more profit is found,
if weather be faire and deaw of a ground.