Kéeping of crowes.
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No sooner a sowing, but out by and by,
with [mother][23] or boy that Alarum can cry:
And let them be armed with sling or with bowe,
to skare away [piggen], the rooke and the crowe.[E92]
Water furrough.
15
Seed sowen, draw a [forrough], the water to draine,
and dike vp such ends as in [harmes][24] doe remaine:
For driuing of cattell or rouing that waie,
which being preuented, ye hinder their praie.
Amend marsh walles.
16
Saint Mihel[25] doth bid thee amend the marsh wal,[E93]
the [brecke] and the crab hole, the foreland and al:
One [noble] in season bestowed theron,
may saue thee a hundred er winter be gon.
Gelding of rams.
17
Now geld with the gelder the ram and the bul,
sew ponds, amend dammes, and sel webster thy wul:
[Out] fruit go and gather, but not in the deaw,
with crab and the wal nut, for feare of a [shreaw].
Gathering of fruit.
18
The Moone in the wane, gather fruit for to last,
but winter fruit gather when Mihel is past:
Though michers that loue not to buy nor to craue,
makes some gather sooner, else few for to haue.