* * * Mason remarks that this metre was peculiar to Shenstone.[E20]
[6.]
The commodities of Husbandrie.
Chap. 6.
1
Let house haue to fill her,
Let land haue to till her.
No dwellers, what profiteth house for to stand?
What goodnes, vnoccupied, bringeth the land?
2
No labor no bread,
No host we be dead.
No husbandry vsed, how soone shall we sterue?
House keeping neglected, what comfort to serue?
3
Ill father no gift,
No knowledge no thrift.
The father an [vnthrift], what hope to the sonne?
The ruler vnskilfull, how quickly vndonne?