Twise a week roast.
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Good ploughmen looke weekly, of custome and right,
for roast meat on Sundaies and Thursdaies at night.
This dooing and keeping such custome and guise,
they call thee good huswife, they loue thee likewise.
[91.]
¶ The good huswifelie Physicke.
[1]
Good huswiues prouides, ere an sicknes doo come,
of sundrie good things in hir house to haue some.
Good [Aqua composita],[E459] Vineger tart,
Rose water and treakle, to comfort the hart.
[2]
[Cold] herbes in hir garden for agues that burne,
that ouer strong heat to good [temper] may turne.
While [Endiue] and [Suckerie], with Spinnage ynough,
all such with good pot herbes should follow the plough.
[3]
Get water of [Fumentorie], Liuer to coole,
and others the like, or els lie like a foole.
[Conserue] of the Barberie, Quinces and such,
with [Sirops] that easeth the sickly so much.
Physition.
[4]
Aske Medicus counsell, ere medcine ye make,
and honour that man, for necessities sake.
Though thousands hate physick, because of the cost,
yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost.