7
Who looketh to marrie must laie to keepe house,
for loue may not alway be plaieing with [douse]:
If children encrease, and no [staie] of thine owne,
what afterwards followes is soone to be knowne.
Thee for thriue.
Hostisses grudge: nurses craue.
8
Once [charged] with children, or likelie to bee,
giue ouer to [sudgerne], that thinkest to [thee]:[E28]
Least [grutching] of [hostis], and crauing of nurse,
be costlie and [noisome] to thee and thy purse.
Live within thy [Tedder].
9
Good husbands that loueth good houses to keepe
are oftentimes careful when other doe sleepe:
To spend as they may, or to stop at the furst,
for running in danger, or feare of the wurst.
By haruest is ment al thy stock.
10
Go count with thy cofers,[2] when haruest is in,
which waie for thy profite, to saue or to win:
Of [tone] of them both, if a [sauer] wee smel,[E29]
house keeping is godlie where euer we dwel.
Be thine own purs bearer.
11
Sonne, think not thy monie purse bottom to burn,
but keepe it for profite, to serue thine owne turn:
A foole and his monie be soone at debate,
which after with sorrow repents him too late.[E30]