[16 contd.]
Sowing of rie.
9
Thresh seed and to fanning, September doth crie,
get plough to the field, and be sowing of rie:
To harrow the [rydgis], er euer ye [strike,][E90]
is one peece[20] of husbandrie Suffolk doth like.
10
Sowe timely thy whitewheat, sowe rie in the dust,
let seede haue his [longing], let soile haue hir lust:
Let rie be partaker of Mihelmas spring,
to [beare out] the hardnes that winter doth bring.
11[21]
Some mixeth to miller the rie with the wheat,
[Temmes lofe] on his table to haue for to eate:
But sowe it not mixed, to growe so on land,
least rie [tarie] wheat, till it shed as it stand.
12
If soile doe desire to haue rie with the wheat,
by growing togither, for safetie more great,
Let white wheat be ton, be it deere, be it cheape,
the sooner to ripe, for the sickle to reape.
Sowing.
13
Though beanes be in sowing but scattered in,
yet wheat, rie, and peason, I loue not too thin:
Sowe barlie and [dredge],[E91] with a plentifull hand,
least weede, steed of seede, ouer groweth thy land.