[19.]
¶ Octobers husbandrie.
Chap. 17.
October good blast,
To blowe the hog mast.
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
Laie vp barlie land.
1
Now lay vp[E105] thy barley land, drie as ye can
when euer ye sowe it so looke for it than:
Get daily aforehand, be neuer behinde;
least winter preuenting do alter thy minde.
2
Who laieth vp fallow[E106] too soone or too wet,
with noiances many doth barley beset.
For weede and the water so [soketh] and sucks,
that goodnes from either it vtterly plucks.
Wheat sowing.
3
Greene rie in September when timely thou hast,
October for wheat sowing calleth as fast.
If weather will suffer, this counsell I giue,
Leaue sowing of wheat before Hallomas eue.