[81.]
¶ Dairie.
Good dairie doth pleasure,
Ill dairie spendes treasure.
Dairie.
1
Good huswife in dairie, that needes not be tolde,
deserueth hir fee to be paid hir in golde.
2
Ill seruant neglecting what huswiferie saies,
deserueth hir fee to be paid hir with [baies].[E440]
Good [droie][E441] woorth much.[1]
Marke sluts and such.
3
Good droie to serue hog, to helpe wash, and to milke,
more needfull is truelie than some in their silke.
4
Though homelie be milker, let cleanlie be cooke,
for a slut and a slouen be knowne by their looke.
In dairie no cat,
Laie [bane] for a rat.