35
What euer thing fat is, againe if it fall,
thou [ventrest] the thing and the fatnes withall,
The fatter the better, to sell or to kil,
but not to [continue], make proofe if ye wil.
Burieng of dead cattell.
36
What euer thing dieth, go burie or burne,
for tainting of ground, or a woorser il turne.
Such pestilent smell of a [carrenly] thing,
to cattle and people great peril may bring.
Measeled hogs.
37
Thy measeled bacon, hog, sow, or thy bore,
shut vp for to [heale], for infecting thy store:
Or kill it for bacon, or [sowce] it to sell,
for Flemming, that loues it so [deintily] well.[E114]
Strawwisps and peasbolts.
38
With [strawisp] and peasebolt, with ferne and the brake,
for sparing of fewel, some brewe and do bake,
And heateth their copper, for seething of graines:
good seruant rewarded, refuseth no paines.[E115]
Olde wheat better than new.
39
Good breadcorne and drinkcorne, full xx weekes kept,
is better then new, that at harvest is rept:
But [foisty] the breadcorne and [bowd] eaten malt,[E116]
for health or for profit, find noysome thou shalt.
40[9]
By [thend] of October, go gather vp sloes,
haue thou in a readines plentie of [thoes],
And keepe them in [bedstraw], or still on the bow,
to [staie] both the flixe of thyselfe and thy cow.