[3]
Giue childe that is [fitly], giue babie the big,
giue hardnes to youth and to [roperipe] a twig.
Wee find it not spoken so often for naught,
that children were better vnborne than vntaught,
[4]
Some [cockneies][E460] with cocking are made [verie] fooles,
fit neither for [prentise], for plough, nor for schooles.
Teach childe to aske blessing, serue God, and to church,
then blesse as a mother, else blesse him with [burch].
Thou huswife thus dooing, what further shall néede?
but all men to call thée good mother in déede.
[93.]
¶ Thinke on the poore.
Remember the poore, that for Gods sake doo call,
for God both rewardeth and blesseth withall.
Take this in good part, whatsoeuer thou bee:
and wish me no woorse than I wish vnto thee.