17
Make hunger thy sauce,[E34] as a medcine for helth,
make thirst to be butler, as physick for welth:
Make eie to be [vsher], good vsage to haue,
make bolt to be porter, to keepe out a knaue.
Thrifts bailie.
18
Make husbandrie [bailie], abrode to prouide,
make huswiferie dailie at home for to guide:
Make cofer fast locked, thy treasure to keepe,
make house to be sure, the safer to sleepe.
Husbandly armors.
19
Make [bandog][E35] thy [scoutwatch], to barke at a theefe,
make courage for life to be [capitaine cheefe]:
Make trapdore thy bulwarke, make bell to be [gin],[4]
make [gunstone] and arrow shew who is within.
Théeves to thrift.
20
The credite of maister, to [brothell] his man,
and also of mistresse, to [minnekin] Nan,
Be causers of opening a number of gaps,
That letteth in mischiefe and many mishaps.[E36]
Friends to thrift.
21
Good husband he [trudgeth], to bring in the gaines,
good huswife she drudgeth, refusing no paines:
Though husband at home be to [count][5] ye [wote] what,[E37]
yet huswife within is as needfull as that.
Enimie to thrift.