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Though some then doe, as doe they would,
let thriftie doe, as doe they should.
For causes good, so many waies,
keepe [Embrings][E63] wel, and fasting daies:
Fish daies.
A thing needful.
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What lawe commands, we ought to obay,
for Friday, Saturne, and Wednesday.[E64]
The land doth will, the sea doth wish,
spare sometime flesh, and feede of fish.
The last remedie.
Where fish is scant, and fruit of trees,
Supplie that want with butter and cheese.
T. Tusser.
[1] "Dry'd in the Chimney as Bacon, and is so called because it was usual to kill the Beef for this Provision about the Feast of St. Martin, Nov. 11th."—T.R.(= Tusser Redivivus, here and elsewhere)
[2] "A Crone is a Ewe, whose teeth are so worne down that she can no longer keep her sheep-walk."—T.R.