Crop vpon crop.
20
Still crop vpon crop many farmers do take,
and reape little profit for greedines sake.
Though [breadcorne] & drinkcorn[E110] such [croppers] do stand:
count peason or [brank], as a comfort to land.
21
Good land that is seuerall, crops may haue three,
in champion countrie it may not so bee:
Ton taketh his season, as commoners may,
the tother with reason may otherwise say.
22
Some vseth at first a good fallow to make,
to sowe thereon barlie, the better to take.
Next that to sowe pease, and [of] that to sowe wheat,
then fallow againe, or lie lay for thy neat.
23
First rie, and then barlie, the champion saies,
or wheat before barlie be champion waies:
But drinke before bread corne with Middlesex men,
then lay on more compas, and fallow agen.
24
Where barlie ye sowe, after rie or else wheat,
if land be [vnlustie],[8] the crop is not great,
So lose ye your cost, to your [coresie] and smart,
and land (ouerburdened) is cleane out of hart.
25
[Exceptions] take of the champion land,
from [lieng alonge] from that at thy hand.
(Just by) ye may comfort with compas at will,
far off ye must comfort with fauor and skill.
26
Where rie or else wheat either barlie ye sowe,
let [codware] be next, therevpon for to growe:
Thus hauing two crops, whereof codware is ton,
thou hast the lesse neede, to lay cost therevpon.
27
Some far fro the market delight not in pease,
for that ery [chapman] they seeme not to please.
If [vent] of the market place serue thee not well,
set hogs vp a fatting, to drouer to sell.
28
Two crops of a fallow enricheth the plough,
though tone be of pease, it is land good ynough:
One crop and a fallow some soile will abide,
where if ye go furder lay profit aside.