5
Giue seruant no dainties, but giue him ynough,
too many chaps walking,[E445] do begger the plough.
6
Poore [seggons] halfe starued worke faintly and dull,
and lubbers doo loiter, their bellies too full.
Giue neuer too much,
To lazie and such.
7
Feede lazie that thresheth a [flap] and a tap,
like slothfull, that all day be stopping a gap.
8
Some [litherly] lubber more eateth than twoo,
yet leaueth vndone that another will doo.
Where nothing will last,
Spare such as thou hast.
9
Some cutteth thy linnen, some spoileth[2] their broth,
bare table to some doth as well as a cloth.
10
[Treene] dishes be homely, and yet not to lack,
where stone is no [laster] take tankard and [iack].
[Knap] boy on the thums,
And saue him his crums.
11
That [pewter] is neuer for [manerly] feastes,
that daily doth serue so vnmanerly beastes.