10
In Suffolke againe, where as wheat neuer grew,
good husbandrie vsed good wheat land I knew:
This Prouerbe experience long ago gaue,
that nothing who practiseth nothing shall haue.
11
As grauell and sand is for rie and not wheat,
(or yeeldeth hir burden to tone the more great,)
So peason and barlie delight not in sand,
but rather in claie or in rottener land.
12
Wheat somtime is [steelie] or burnt as it growes,
for [pride][7] or for pouertie practise so knowes.
Too lustie of courage for wheat doth not well,
nor after sir peeler he looueth to dwell.[E108]
13
Much wetnes, hog rooting, and land out of [hart],
makes thistles a number foorthwith to vpstart.
If thistles so growing prooue lustie and long,
it signifieth land to be hartie and strong.
14
As land full of tilth and in hartie good plight,
yeelds [blade] to a length and encreaseth in might,
So crop vpon crop, vpon whose courage we doubt,
yeelds blade for a [brag], but it holdeth not out.
15
The straw and the eare to haue bignes and length,
betokeneth land to be good and in strength.
If eare be but short, and the strawe be but small,
it signifieth barenes and barren withall.
16
White wheat or else red, red [riuet] or whight,
far passeth all other, for land that is light.
White [pollard] or red, that so richly is set,
for land that is heauie is best ye can get.
17
[Maine] wheat that is mixed with white and with red
is next to the best in the market mans hed:
So Turkey or [Purkey wheat][E109] many doe loue,
because it is flourie, as others aboue.
18
Graie wheat is the [grosest], yet good for the clay,
though woorst for the market, as [fermer] may say.
Much like vnto rie be his properties found,
coorse flower, much bran, and a peeler of ground.
19
Otes, rie, or else barlie, and wheat that is gray,
brings land out of [comfort], and soone to decay:
One after another, no comfort betweene,
is crop vpon crop, as will quickly be seene.