My friend, if cause doth [wrest] thee,
Ere follie hath much opprest thee:
Farre from acquaintance [kest] thee,
Where countrie may [digest] thee,
Let wood and water request thee,
In good corne soile to [nest] thee,
Where pasture and meade may [brest] thee,
And [healthsom] aire [inuest] thee.
Though enuie shall detest thee,
Let that no whit molest thee,
Thanke God, that so hath blest thee,
And sit downe Robin & rest thee.
* * * The title in the edition of 1577 reads:
An habitation enforced aduisedly to be followed better late than never, &c.
[12.]
[Not in 1577.]
¶ The fermers dailie diet.
Chap. 12.
1
A [plot] set downe, for fermers quiet,
as time requires, to frame his diet:
With sometime fish, and sometime fast,
that houshold store may longer last.[E58]
Lent.
2
Let Lent well kept offend not thee,
for March and Aprill [breeders] bee:
Spend herring first, saue saltfish last,
for saltfish is good, when Lent is past.