12
Some gnaweth and leaueth, some crusts and some crums,
eat such their own leuings, or gnaw their own thums.
Serue God euer furst,
Take nothing at wurst.
Grace before and after meate.
13
At Dinner, at Supper, at morning, at night,
giue thankes vnto God, for his gifts so in[3] sight.
14
Good husband and huswife, will sometime alone,
make shift with a morsell and picke of a bone.
Inough thou art tolde,
Too much will not holde.
15
Three dishes well dressed, and welcome withall,
both pleaseth thy friend and becommeth thine hall.
16
Enough is a plentie,[E446] too much is a pride,
the plough with ill holding, goes quicklie aside.
[1] Stanzas 3-12 are not in 1577.
[2] spilleth. 1577.