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Now sawe out thy timber, for boord and for pale,
to haue it [vnshaken],[E99] and ready to sale:
[Bestowe] it and [stick] it,[30] and lay it aright,
to find it in March, to be ready in [plight].
Slabs of timber.
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Saue slab[31] of thy timber for stable and stie,
for horse and for hog the more clenly to lie:
Saue sawe dust, and brick dust, and ashes so fine,
for alley to walke in, with neighbour of thine.
Hedge breakers.
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Keepe safely and warely thine vttermost fence,
with [ope gap] and breake hedge do seldome dispence:
Such runabout prowlers, by night and by day,
see punished iustly for prowling away.
Learne to knowe Hew prowler.
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At noone if it bloweth, at night if it shine,
out trudgeth Hew make shift, with hooke & with line:[E100]
Whiles Gillet, his [blouse], is a milking thy cow,
Sir Hew is a [rigging] thy gate or the plow.
Black or red dogs.
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Such walke with a black or a red little cur,
that [open] wil quickly, if anything stur;
Then [squatteth] the master, or trudgeth away,
and after dog runneth as fast as he may.
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Some prowleth for fewel, and some away rig
fat goose, and the capon, duck, hen, and the pig:
Some prowleth for acornes, to fat vp their swine,
for corne and for apples, and al that is thine.